Correction: This article originally stated that the Peruvian plan may require couples to obtain a government “license” to have children. However, an error by a translator failed to take into consideration that the Spanish phrase “licencias por paternidad y maternidad” may also be translated as maternity and paternity “leave,” which appears to be the more accurate translation in this case. We regret the error.
LIMA, January 20, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peruvian authorities have revealed a plan created with the help of international pro-abortion groups, which would legalize abortion by 2017 and implement nationwide “sexual diversity” education through every organ of the government.
The National Plan for Gender Equality was recently revealed to the public by feminists within the administration of President Ollanta Humala, who were apparently concerned that his new women’s minister might nix the plan following the ouster of the far-left minister who oversaw the creation of the document.
As LifeSiteNews reported in December, President Humala has fired a number of prominent pro-abortion feminists in his administration after breaking with the leftist coalition that helped to bring him to power.
The plan, which is currently on display at a government website (see PDF version here in Spanish) will be formally presented to Humala in February, although it is unclear if he will embrace it or reject it as it currently stands. It was formulated under the leadership of now ex-minister Aida Garcia Naranjo.
“By 2017, the law penalizing abortion will be modified,” the document states, and “a protocol for therapeutic abortion will be approved.”
It adds that by 2017, “100% of women of 18 years of age and 80% of women younger than 18 years will have a identity document.” No similar requirement is outlined for men, and the plan does not explain the rationale for the requirement. One local pro-life leader who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was informed that it is intended to promote “sexual diversity,” although it remains unclear how.
The plan also requires all disabled people to be “registered in the National Registry of People with Disabilities,” for reasons that are similarly unclear.
Continuing a policy conducted for years by international organizations, which have been flooding Peru with condoms, under the plan “health establishments will give information and freely distribute contraceptive measures, including contraception in all public health services.”
The government would also undertake systematic “promotion” of “sexual diversity,” a term associated with homosexualist movements.
“By 2017, 100% of the public institutions at the three levels of government will implement communicative actions to promote the respect of sexual diversity, reduce sexist messages,” the plan states. The plan would also require “100% of press and/or communication offices of all public entities” to “incorporate inclusive language in their communications and productions.”
According to the Ministry of Women, the plan does not seek merely “to close the breach between men and women” but rather to “transform the sexual-gender system that produces these divisions.”
The Ministry of Women openly thanks a large number of international organizations for their “support” for the creation of the Plan, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Women (UNWOMEN) the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS), the Spanish International Cooperation Agency for Development (AECID), and the Embassy of Belgium.
It remains to be seen if the Peru’s new Minister of Women, Ana Jara, will move forward with the plan in its current state. Jara shocked leftist feminist groups in late December by announcing her clear opposition to the legalization of abortion, the abortifacient “morning after pill,” and sex by minors – three causes dear to the heart of pro-abortion organizations. She also invited women to read the Bible.