Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep 28, 2011 / 17:25 pm
Federal, provincial and local government leaders from across Argentina have signed a pledge to uphold the dignity of human life at all stages and to oppose any law that would legalize abortion or euthanasia.
The nation's lawmakers signed the “Protocol for Life and the Family” at a conference of the Parliamentarians for Life and the Family on September 25 in the city of Salta.
During the ceremony, Archbishop Alfredo Horacio Zecca of Tucuman said that among “the threatening challenges, we must not fail to mention the crime of abortion, which some want to legitimize as if it were a right.”
The legalization of abortion would inject into society a mindset that justifies the “radical exclusion of others, the elimination of the unwanted unborn and disregard for the inalienable dignity of life,” he said.