Lima, Peru, Jun 15, 2004 / 22:00 pm
The Secretary General of the Peruvian Bishops Conference, Bishop Juan Jose Larrañeta, dismissed comments by Minister of Health Pilar Mazzetti and stated the morning after pill does attack a new human life.
In statements to reporters, Bishop Larrañeta explained that “the morning after pill is a drug that does not cure, it kills.”
Bishop Larrañeta was responding to statements made by the Health Minister to justify her decision to distribute the drug free of charge at family planning centers, alleging that it does not prevent implantation of a fertilized ovum.
“There is no evidence of neither an anti-implantation effect or of any other effect on the product (the fertilized ovum – editor) which has not been implanted. Moreover this is a product that has been used since the 1980s,” said Mazzetti.