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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2007 
Liberal Mexican Catholic Group Announces Support for Legalized Abortion
 Associated Press
| | Led by Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera, several thousand anti-abortion protesters marched through the streets Sunday to oppose the measure. |
Mexico City – A liberal Latin American Roman Catholic group published a paid ad defending abortion in national Mexican newspapers Monday, a day after several thousand people summoned by Mexico's Catholic Church protested against a proposal to legalize the procedure.
“The decision to interrupt a pregnancy is a serious ethical dilemma,” the non-governmental organization, Catholics for the Right to Choose, wrote in the ad. “Women who resort to this option don't do it with joy in their hearts; they do it as a last resort after considering all of the consequences, and they make the decision responsibly, according to their conscience.”
Mexico's largest leftist party, the Democratic Revolution Party, supported by smaller opposition forces, has proposed a law both in the Mexico City legislature and in the national Congress that would legalize abortion in the first three months of pregnancy.
Current law allows abortion only if the woman's life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest.
Led by Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera, several thousand anti-abortion protesters marched through the streets Sunday to oppose the measure.
According to a mission statement on the group's Web site, Catholics for the Right to Choose is a Latin America-wide network of “autonomous Catholics, committed to the search for social justice and a change in the cultural and religious patterns present in our societies.”
“We promote the rights of women, especially those having to do with sexuality and human reproduction,” the statement asserts.
The ad went on to protest the church's position, saying, “If our bishops defend life starting at conception, why don't they promote marches against violence against women?”
At least 90 percent of Mexicans are at least nominally Catholic. |
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