Lima, Peru, Aug 6, 2008 / 15:11 pm
A renowned expert on sexuality and the family in Peru has explained the deceit behind the concept of “reproductive health,” after the Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, denounced the existence of ideologically-driven groups that use the concept to promote new forms of abortion.
According to psychiatrist Rene Flores, the cardinal’s comments simply “coincide with the reservations expressed by Peru about this term at the international conferences of Cairo and Beijing.”
“It is not exactly known who created the concept of reproductive health and how,” he said, but the term was explicitly mentioned for the first time in the 1994 World Conference on Population and Development.
Flores said that in Peru, “the concept of ‘reproductive health’ is becoming accepted by leaders, politicians and doctors, without any basis or further questioning.”