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Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Guadalajara, the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, spoke out strongly against the recent decision of that state’s Legislature to decriminalize abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation, calling it the “murder of innocents.”
Following debate and a vote, the penal code of the state of Jalisco was amended Oct. 4 to make it the 11th Mexican state that decriminalizes abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Sinaloa state decriminalized abortion up to 13 weeks of pregnancy. In Coahuila, where the law related to how abortion is to be punished has been invalidated, clear limits have not yet been established.
The push for decriminalizing abortion in Mexico accelerated during the recently concluded six-year term of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. His party, the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA, by its Spanish acronym), took advantage of its large majority in many states to push for pro-abortion legislation.
On social media, Robles charged Oct. 6 that both the governor and the legislators want to make people believe that if abortion is performed in the first 12 weeks, “nothing happens to the new being” and that it’s possible to “eliminate the fetus,” which they seek to normalize as a “legal right to terminate a pregnancy.”
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Following debate and a vote, the penal code of the state of Jalisco was amended Oct. 4 to make it the 11th Mexican state that decriminalizes abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Sinaloa state decriminalized abortion up to 13 weeks of pregnancy. In Coahuila, where the law related to how abortion is to be punished has been invalidated, clear limits have not yet been established.
The push for decriminalizing abortion in Mexico accelerated during the recently concluded six-year term of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. His party, the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA, by its Spanish acronym), took advantage of its large majority in many states to push for pro-abortion legislation.
‘It should be called what it is: murdering the innocent’
On social media, Robles charged Oct. 6 that both the governor and the legislators want to make people believe that if abortion is performed in the first 12 weeks, “nothing happens to the new being” and that it’s possible to “eliminate the fetus,” which they seek to normalize as a “legal right to terminate a pregnancy.”
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Mexican cardinal decries ‘murder of innocents’
Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara, Mexico, spoke out strongly against the decision of Jalisco’s state Legislature to decriminalize abortion.
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