MEXICO CITY, January 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexico’s historically socially-conservative party, the National Action Party (PAN), has nominated a pro-abortion politician for the 2012 Mexico City mayoral race.
“It’s not that I’m in favor of abortion. I respect the fact that each woman has the freedom to do what she wants with her body and I am going to defend that all of the time,” Isabel Miranda de Wallace recently told the press, according to the newspaper El Universal.
“We aren’t minors who don’t know what we’re doing,” she added. “I am going to respect what is already in the law and of course I will respect what each person decides.”
“What is already in the law” in Mexico City is a measure, passed in 2007, legalizing abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy, and providing the deadly procedure free of charge in city hospitals.
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Since the law was passed a little less than five years ago, over 70,000 unborn children have been killed in Mexico City’s public hospitals alone, a number roughly equivalent to the total number of live births last year.
Although the PAN has historically positioned itself as a pro-Catholic and pro-life party, fighting against the legalization of abortion in Mexico City and throughout Mexico, its leaders have warmly accepted the candidacy of Miranda. However, pro-lifers in the nation’s Federal District have organized a call-in campaign to PAN headquarters in protest.
The irony of the situation was noted recently by political commentator Rosario Robles in Milenio, one of Mexico City’s three largest-circulation newspapers, who called the situation “complicated for a party that has made this dispute one of its principle causes, that has fought without success to have these reforms (legalizing abortion in Mexico City) declared unconstitutional and that surely does not share the position of who is today its candidate.”