Pro-life groups in Colombia prepare legal challenges against high court ruling legalizing abortion
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, May 15, 2006 / 12:00 am (CNA).- Two pro-life associations in Colombia have expressed their rejection of a ruling by the country’s Constitutional Court legalizing abortion in certain cases and said they are committed to preparing legal challenges to overturn the unjust decision.

Ilva Hoyos, president of Red Futuro Colombia, deplored the high court’s ruling and said it was legally unacceptable to defend the thesis that the mere existence of a human being is a violation of the fundamental rights of another.  Hoyos called for Colombians to act “as an army of citizens in defense of the Constitution, which rests upon the respect for human dignity.  We should also demand that the media faithfully keep its constitutional mandate to inform and to receive truthful and impartial information.”

Martha Saiz de Rueda, president of Cultural Foundation for Human Life—an organization affiliated with Human Life International, said she hopes people will take the necessary actions and refuse “to march to the beat of the drums of death that hail from the UN and certain organizations in the United States.”

She said the high court justices have ignored the more than two million people who signed petitions and the more than 30,000 letters sent by children calling on the court to “protect its tradition of respect for human dignity.”

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Published by: George Angel
Canada 05/16/2006 10:54 AM EST
The anti-life anti-family pro-abortion movement now has the beach head and launching pad they were looking for in South America with this terrible and tragic constitutional court decision in Columbia. The fact that 2 million people signed petitions calling the courts to protect right to life, shows how anti-life and socially acitivist judges have taken over the court systems in Columbia and even worse, in western countries like Canada that have no respect for morality or public opinion. Only through prayer and fasting are we able going to defeat these forces of darkness that are pervasive throughout the world, especially the western world. Right now these dark forces are trying so desparately to bring their culture of death to South America, the most populace catholic continent in the world. Let us hope they fail. Why does not the U.S. pro-abortion movement tell the rest of the world why Jane Roe of Roe versus Wade, who was the poster girl for the anti-life pro-abortion movement, not tell the world that Roe has totally abandoned the pro-abortion movement and wants nothing to do with it ever again. Or is that just a small detail they are not going to mention to unsuspecting populations around the globe?
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Published by: Katherine Clyde
Bronx, NY USA 05/16/2006 09:45 AM EST
There are agencies working with NGO's in the U.S., like what occured in Peru, who should be named, made public and people should be widely informed of their involvement in spreading propaganda, laundering monies, enforcing programs, backing political bodies all of which blackens our government, and when some government agencies are directly involved, all of us should do everything we can to stop it. Now, who can act as a whistleblower? There is one organization, Catholic, that has already done something to publicize these groups, Population Research Institute founded by Rev. Paul Marxk and header by Steven Mosher, who was kicked out of Stanford for his stand on population. Don't dump all the work on them for exposure! Expose the agencies! I for one, want to know.
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