Medellin, Colombia, Nov 29, 2010 / 15:53 pm
Colombian officials recently blocked plans to build an abortion clinic in the city of Medellin.
The Colombian Department of Antioquia’s Secretary for Health, Carlos Mario Rivera Escobar, said officials decided against the proposal on Nov. 25 because “there is no need for the kind of clinic that has been suggested either in Medellin or in the metropolitan area.”
He said the women's clinic was presented as a facility that would offer “limited gynecological care,” a need that is already being sufficiently met by the Medellin General Hospital and the local health care system. “This is a proposal to do something that is already being done,” Rivera noted.
The proposal called for nearly $8 million in taxpayer funds to build the clinic.