September 28 is the "Day for the decriminalization
of abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean", instituted by the pro-abortion
movement in Hispanic countries of this hemisphere. Anti-life
feminists shedule abortion promotion events every year in practically every
one of those countries. Pro-lifers in Ecuador and several other Hispanic
countries scheduled their own event this year the same day and titled it:"Por la
Vida y los Derechos de los No Nacidos" ("For life and the rights of
the unborn").
The anti-life website of the "September 28
Campaign" (www.abortolegal.org) has extensive
coverage (in Spanish) on the efforts to legalize abortion in Colombia at
http://www.abortolegal.org/ .
Attorney Monica Roa, who is spearheading that effort in said country, was
interviewed by "Semana Digital", an online publication. The article is
titled "Aborto: LLego la hora de despenalizar" (Abortion: The time has come to
decriminalize it). Said article states
that Monica works for and is being funded by Women's Link Worldwide,
an anti-life feminist organization in the U.S. "[She] traveled to several
countries in order to investigate which strategies had been effective with the
judges, where it concerns the promotion of sexual and reproductive rights. Then
she studied carefully the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and
international documents and treaties signed by Colombia. She spoke with
attorneys, women's groups, journalists and sociologists, in order to discern the
most intelligent course to overturn legal prohibition (of abortion). In
South Africa for example, an NGO used a similar strategy to end prohibition of
sex among homosexuals." Catholics for a Free Choice has been participating in
the abortion debate in Colombia, "from a religious
perspective."
Also from the same article titled "Abortion:
The time has come to decriminalize it":
"International NGOs such as Human Rights Watch have
declared that the criminalization of abortion violates human rights etc.The
prestigious Human Rights Clinic at Yale University, as well as the Harvard Law
Group presented legal arguments. Even the well known medical investigation
center, the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York, intervened during public
audiences in the [Colombian]Court, using the argument that in countries where
abortion is legalized the number of abortions goes down eventually. The
international academic and financial support given to Roa has been harshly
criticized by the lay and religious movement opposed to abortion
decriminalization." The "Constitutional Court must decide before December 12 if
abortion will be decriminalized when the life of the mother is in danger or when
pregnancy is the result of rape." As we U.S.
pro-lifers know, asking for decriminalization only for those so-called
"difficult cases", is a clever strategy to eventually obtain total
legalization under any circunstances as was done in the U.S.
According to the same above mentioned article,
The Center for Reproductive Rights funded Roa's
book "Cuerpo y Derecho: Legislación y jurisprudencia en América Latina"
(Body and law : Legislation and jurisprudence in Latin America). This
book is a useful "manual" for Latin American pro-abortionists, published
with donations from the Ford Foundation.
Roa also said in another interview that
"There is momentum in the region about the liberalization of
anti-abortion laws" and that "advocates from other countries" will receive the
"tools and inspiration to continue the struggle" because "this is a global
movement that has no frontiers". ("Challenging abortion
law in Colombia - An interview with Monica Roa, July 2005, http://www.womenslinkworldwide.org)
Human Life International's affiliate in
Colombia, Fundacion Cultura de la Vida Humana, is working very hard against all
odds, in union with many other lay and religious groups, trying to
counteract all those anti-life efforts and keep Colombian unborn babies safe
from abortion. According to a YanHaas poll, as reported by Colombia’s Radio
RCN, 65.6 percent believe abortion should remain illegal. (LifeSiteNews,August 4, 2005) The majority of Colombian people don't want
abortion legalized! The actions of the U.S.organizations and foundations working
to legalize abortion in that country, are nothing short of a deadly foreign
intervention!
Vida Humana Internacional - Human Life
International's Hispanic Division in Miami - is hereby launching an SOS for
donations for the pro-life movement in Colombia. Please pray for Colombia and
help us counteract the intervention of the U.S. anti-life movement by
sending us a generous donation! You can send it to: Vida Humana Internacional,
45 S.W. 71 Av, Miami, Fl, 33144. Ph: 305-260-0525.
Note: Mrs. Magaly Llaguno is Executive Director
of Vida Humana Internacional (VHI), Human Life International's Hispanic Division
in Miami. You will find more information on anti-life activities by U.S.
organizations and foundations in VHI's bilingual website: http://www.vidahumana.org/english/family/death-culture_index.html.
