Bogotá, Colombia, Mar 5, 2009 / 18:17 pm
The head of the bioethics department for the University of La Sabana’s school of medicine, Pablo Arango Restrepo is claiming that advocates of abortion used exaggerated statistics and rare cases to make abortion legal in Colombia.
In exclusive statements to CNA, Arango recalled that “in May of 2006, the Constitutional Court of Colombia legalized abortion in three circumstances: when the life of the mother is in danger, when there are congenital deformities incompatible with life, and in cases of rape.” He also noted that “during the campaign to get legalization, all kinds of doctored statistics were used that referenced a supposedly enormous number of clandestine abortions. They claimed there were some 400,000 such abortions” in Colombia.
“After the legalization, the number of legal abortions has been minimal, barely one hundred, and the abortionists are the ones most surprised because it doesn’t square with their statistics,” Arango said.
“Now they have started up the campaign again to legalize abortion for any reason and these ‘inflated’ statistics have shown up once more,” he warned.