Guayaquil, Ecuador, May 28, 2008 / 14:33 pm
In a document containing fifteen conclusions from a “Workshop on the Prevention of Abortion,” organized in Guayaquil by the Ecuadorian Federation of Societies of Gynecology and Obstetrics, doctors agreed on the need to reject abortion as a way of solving problems related to women’s health.
During the workshop, which was held at the Enrique Sotomayor Hospital, where no less than 100 children are born per day, doctors and specialists in obstetrics drafted a document with 15 conclusions, which they signed on May 23.
The conclusions state that the members of the Federation do not support abortion of any kind. “Life is inviolable from the moment of conception. The elimination of an innocent human being is ethically and medically speaking always unacceptable,” they said.
They went on to note that “science teaches that life begins and conception. If this truth is also affirmed by religions it does not therefore cease to be a strictly scientific truth to only become a debatable religious opinion. Whoever denies that life begins at conception doesn’t have an issue with religion but rather with science. To deny this certainty of biology is not an expression of a lack of faith, but rather a lack of an elementary knowledge of human genetics, or even worse, of simple general culture,” the doctors said.