DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Mexico’s government caves to pro-abortion groups, changes regulations covering ‘morning-after pill’

“Pressure from anti-life feminist groups”

Mexico City, March 3, 2009 / (CNA) -- The media in Mexico reported this week that the country’s Secretariat of Health has caved to pressure from anti-life feminist groups and has changed government regulations to require health care facilities throughout Mexico to administer “emergency contraception” in cases of rape.

In July of last year, the Secretariat of Health modified Mexican Official Norm 046, which deals with domestic violence, sexual assault and violence against women, to say that health institutions “shall” provide the morning-after pill. Then in January of 2009, the secretariat changed the wording from “shall” to “may.”

Giving in to fierce protests from feminist and anti-life organizations, the Secretariat has changed the language back to how it was originally written, which in practice legalizes abortion in cases of rape.