Paraguay's President Standing Strong against Pressure to Legalize Abortion

Sofia Vazquez-Mellado : Nov 24, 2015
LifeSiteNews.com

"Paraguay... has shown a firm position in being in favor of life and family."

(Asuncion, Paraguay)—Paraguay President Horacio Cartes is firmly standing against decriminalization of abortion amid an international campaign to legalize it throughout the country. (Photo via Wikipedia)

The international pressure comes after the now world-famous case of a 10-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped and was denied an abortion. The girl recently gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

"The mother is alive, and so is the daughter," said Cartes in recent declarations to the press. "To those who suggested that the girl abort, two things could have happened: one lost life, for sure. We could have lost two lives," he noted.

"We did what our conscience dictated, what the Constitution commands, and what our religious convictions command," he said, adding: "We are more than 80% Catholics in Paraguay."

Abortion in Paraguay is illegal except when pregnancy poses a danger to the life of...

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