December 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a blow to her former leftist supporter base, Peruvian president Ollanta has appointed a pro-life woman to the head of the Ministry of Women and Social Development, after firing her pro-abortion predecessor.
Ana Jara says that she is “against every abortion method” and characterizes herself explicitly as “pro-life.”
“If there is an abortion method, I definitely have to be against it. I am pro-life,” she said in a recent interview on the Open your Eyes television show. She also discarded abortion in rape cases, and said, “when a women makes contact with her child, something supernatural happens.”
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Jara is also against “emergency contraception,” also known as the “morning after pill,” because of its abortifacient effects.
“There is a decision of the Constitutional Court that says that, given the possibility that the components of this pill could be abortive or put life at risk (because there isn’t a definition of when life begins), the Peruvian government should not distribute these medications,” she told Open your Eyes.
Although she accepted the possibility, in theory, of permitting abortions to save a mother’s life, she added that it is “necessary to know at what point the life of the mother is at risk.”
Jara replaces Aida Garcia Naranjo, an advocate of the decriminalization of abortion who was accused by pro-lifers of appointing numerous extremist feminists to important posts within the ministry.
Susana Chavez, a former director of the pro-abortion Center for the Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Rights, also recently left her position at the country’s Ministry of Health, in another apparent firing related to Humala’s shakeup of his administration.