Arequipa, Peru, Nov 5, 2009 / 01:55 am
Archbishop Javier Del Rio Alba of Arequipa praised a ruling by Peru’s Constitutional Court on the controversial morning-after pill and explained that the “right to life” has “triumphed, because that is what the law and medicine demand.”
“The ruling of the Constitutional Court is absolutely correct, both from the legal and medical point of view,” the archbishop said.
Archbishop Del Rio underscored that the court’s ruling “deserves the praise of the Peruvian people, as it constitutes a masterpiece of jurisprudence and scientific knowledge by being founded upon 21st century medicine, the primacy of the Constitution, the country’s legal order and the respect for International Conventions ratified by Peru.”
The archbishop noted that “other courts in South America have ruled against the morning-after pill” in recent years and that last week “it was outlawed by the Honduran Congress.”