HOLY SEE CHALLENGES ‘ENFORCED PREGNANCY’ CODE LANGUAGE

NEW YORK, Apr 6 (LSN) – In the final hours of debate in the prepatory conference for establishing an International Criminal Court, pro-life observers were worried that if no one contested listing “enforced pregnancy” as a crime, it would simply be rubber-stamped by the actual conference, to be held in Rome this summer.  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) said today that in response to this concern,  the Vatican proposed replacing the term “enforced pregnancy” with the term “forced impregnation,”  in the hope of stirring debate at the upcoming conference. The Vatican, of course, would prefer to see the notion dropped altogether, since pro-lifers fear it will be used to persecute pro-life individuals and groups, and to overturn pro-life legislation in individual nations. (In UN and pro-abortion circles, the lack of abortion on demand amounts to “forced pregnancy.) The proposed substitute would focus any new criminal law on the act of rape, instead on the state of pregnancy itself.