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Friday September 3, 2010


Mexican Pro-Family Groups Protest Release of Women Convicted of Infanticide

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent

MEXICO, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A coalition of Mexican organizations focusing on human rights and life and family issues is protesting the recent decision by the governor of the state of Guanajuato to dramatically reduce the maximum sentence for infanticide.

Governor Juan Manuel Oliva has announced the new legislative initiative following a massive national campaign by pro-abortion organizations to gain the release of seven women convicted of infanticide. The groups claimed the women were really incarcerated for spontaneous “abortions.”

According to the Mexican newspaper Milenio, the groups warn that the governor’s measures “open the door so that mothers can murder their newborn children and be freed with a fine, as if it were a minor infraction and removing all importance from life, especially from the defenseless.”

The organizations observe that in all of the seven cases, medical and criminal experts determined that the children were born between 38 and 40 weeks of gestation, measured between 48 and 54 centimeters, and weighed between 2.5 and 3.6 kilograms – all normal measurements for healthy, full-term babies.

Moreover, they contend, investigations by prosecutors produced photographic evidence in one case that the baby was physically assaulted, with multiple facial wounds and a broken nose, and had died of asphyxiation.

In one case previously reported by LSN, the baby was found at the bottom of a latrine, reportedly with fecal matter in his lungs, after his mother sought hospital attention for herself and failed to mention the birth. In another case a woman gave birth after an adulterous affair, and left her child in a bag on the street, claiming later that it had been stillborn.

However, following a national campaign waged by pro-abortion groups, allied to the major media and the socialist Party of the Democratic Revolution, a state judge decreed the release of one of the women, and Governor Oliva followed suit on Tuesday, freeing the six remaining convicts. He has also announced a legislative initiative to reduce the penalty for infanticide from 25 to 35 years in prison, to three to eight years.

The protesting organizations include the Durango Institute for the Formation of Values, the Center for Integral Studies and Formation of Women (Cancún), Protect Life and We Embrace Life of Quintana Roo, the Citizens’ Movement for Life (Baja California Sur), the Pro-Yucatán Network, the Women’s Code of Morelos, the Center for Study and Reflection (Veracruz), the Transformation Forum of Queretaro, and the Family Network of Durango and Oaxaca.

Previous LifeSiteNews coverage:

Women Convicted of Infanticide Released following Pressure from Mexican Pro-Abort Groups

https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10090301.html

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