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BRASILIA, October 28, 2002 (lifesitenews.com) – The newly elected President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, known as “Lula” is a threat to Brazil’s pro-life constitution, says Dr. Talmir Rodriguez, Brazil’s representative on the board of the International Right to Life Federation.  Lula won 61 percent, or 51 million votes, in Sunday’s election.  Lula, a radical labour union leader founded the Workers’ Party (PT), a Trotskyite group that included trade unionists, intellectuals, and followers of Liberation Theology.  Brazilian papers are reporting that shortly after his second marriage, Lula had a daughter by a nurse named Miriam Cordeiro, who ended up speaking out against him in the 1989 presidential campaign. “He offered me money to have an abortion … He can’t be trusted,” said Cordeiro.  Dr. Rodriguez, a member of the national Brazilian bishops conference committee on the family, told LifeSite that Lula and his party are openly pro-abortion and pro-homosexual marriage.  The party has a policy to allow abortion on demand up the third month of pregnancy.  See the MSNBC coverage of the election:  https://www.msnbc.com/news/826535.asp