AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “No attempt to protect the victims, only efforts to use these as ‘cases' to impose abortion as a solution ”: say Catholic Lawyers and Family Pastoral commission

Wednesday, 12 September 2007

Parana (Agenzia Fides) - "God alone is Lord of life and death. No one may arbitrarily decide who is to be born live and who is to die. This decision is the greatest act of discrimination": this statement was part of a Message issued by the Commission for Family Pastoral Care of Paraná archdiocese made public following a Parana Civil Court sentence to deny legal protection to a child to be born by a 19 year old mentally retarded girl who was reportedly raped. The message recalls that “children are not objects, exclusive property of those who generate them, they are a gift for the whole society”.
“This human being - the message continues - whether desired or not, this child has its own dignity since the first moment of its existence and deserves to be loved. If its biological parents cannot give this love the child has the right to live with other people ready to love it as their own". The message continues: "a society which kills its sons and daughters before they are born is endangering its own future since the greatest riches of a nation are its people". The message concludes with a call to let the innocent child live and to "accompany the family during pregnancy, and the birth and infancy of the child who is already alive in our midst".
Argentina's Corporation of Catholic Lawyers said in a statement that with regard to this and similar cases, it sees "no attempt to avoid such cases or to protect the victims. All we see are efforts to use these as ‘cases' to help impose abortion as a solution". According to Catholic Lawyers this is moral perversion “based on the conviction that evil is a remedy for evil, ignoring that in our constitutional legal order there is no such thing as ‘non punishable abortion’ since our Constitution and health good sense order us to protect every human life from the moment of conception". Perciò "Argentina's Corporation of Catholic Lawyers, defends innocent life which some wish to immolate, and calls for the sentence issued by Parana Civil Court to be immediately revoked". (RG) (Agenzia Fides 12/9/2007; righe 27, parole 384)


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