San José, Costa Rica, Oct 20, 2008 / 18:22 pm
The president of the Bishops' Conference of Costa Rica, Archbishop Hugo Barrantes of San Jose, exhorted Catholic lawmakers to reject measures currently under consideration in the National Assembly that attack the family and human life.
During a meeting with Catholic lawmakers, the archbishop expressed the Church's concern about some measures that would modify the law to make room for same-sex unions and so-called "sexual and reproductive rights," which mean nothing more than the promotion of abortion, sterilization, contraceptive methods and the introduction of the morning after pill.