MEXICO CITY, May 20, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In what media are calling an “unprecedented decision,” the Congress in the Mexican state of Guerrero has canceled the debate to pass a bill to legalize abortion-on-demand up to 12 weeks.
The bill, which was proposed by Guerrero’s left-wing governor Angel Aguirre, caused outrage within the Mexican society, as LifeSiteNews reported, causing thousands of pro-lifers to take to the streets last week in several cities aronud Guerrero.
Cardinal Norberto Rivera, Mexico’s Primate Archbishop, asked for prayers for Governor Aguirre during his Sunday homily and published an article in his archdiocese’s weekly newsletter, in which he condemned abortion.
The action “only generates more violence by assassinating innocent children,” he said, in a state already “slaughtered by hunger, impoverished and pillaged by those responsible for common welfare.”
The bill, which was to be voted on last Thursday, would allow abortion-on-demand for the first trimester, and up to nine months when “the product” suffered from deformities, in the case of rape, or if it allegedly posed a danger to the health of the mother.
The proposed law would also violate physicians' conscience rights by compelling pro-life doctors to refer women to an abortionist.
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On May 15, however, during the Congress’ last ordinary period session, the bill was not included in the meeting’s agenda nor debated. Deputy Jorge Camacho announced that there would be a citizen “consultation on the issue” but didn’t say when.
Guerrero’s Congress webpage shows the letters of many who wrote to the congressmen asking to protect life from conception, and nearly 20,000 people signed a petition on citizengo.org, asking Governor Aguirre to withdraw the bill.
According to Maria de la Luz Reyes, president of the Lawyer’s Association of the State of Guerrero, “A state which promotes the legalization of abortion, which is to give death to an unborn baby, makes its own failure evident.”
In an interview with Animal Politico, she said, “the women of Guerrero need public policies that guarantee security, education, health, and employment.”
Maria Sandoval, president of the Defense for Life Movement in Guerrero, celebrated the decision.
“The women of Guerrero have fought a battle in demanding laws that go with our customs and culture,” she said.
According to siete24.com, congressmen from the governor’s far-left Party of the Democratic Revolution revealed in an interview that their decision to cancel the abortion debate was mostly based on “the high political cost their party’s candidates would have to pay during the next election” in 2015.