President Obama’s decision to lift the federal ban on funding for groups that allow for a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion has created a bit of an uproar in largely Catholic Latin America.
In this harshly worded op-ed from Guatemala’s Siglo Vientiuno, José Joaquín Camacho writes in part:
“It is obvious that ensuring the right to life, and in a manner equal to all, is a duty on which the future of the humanity depends. When a society allows abortion – child-killing – it is putting into question its very existence.”
“One of Obama’s first decisions was to promote a culture of death: free abortion and the killing of human embryos for experimentation. And we must understand what’s really behind all this: the undeniable presence of powerful lobbies (the interests of the pharmaceutical industry in the politics of birth control in the Third World, of pro-choice abortionists, etc.). That is who Obama defers to or whose views he shares.”
By José Joaquín Camacho
Translated By Halszka
February 15, 2009
Guatemala – Siglo Vientiuno – Original Article (Spanish)
When a society accepts abortion … it puts its very existence into question.
Among the good things we have in Guatemala is a constitutional mandate to defend life from the moment of conception. The reasons are clear, and yet it is fitting to enumerate several of them here.
[Editor’s Note: Article 3 of Chapter I in Title II of the Constitution of Guatemala grants the right to life from the point of conception. This article states that the government “guarantees and protects human life since its conception, as same as the integrity and security of the person.”]
The most elementary is that violence against the most innocent, as those still unborn are, is an attack against the basis of true democracy and the genuine rule of law. One of the achievements of today’s modern society is the recognition that human dignity does not depend on culture, race, sex, intellectual capacity or age.
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