‘Sad day in Colombia’, say bishops, as country legalizes abortion
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Bogotá, Colombia, May 11, 2006 / 12:00 am (CNA).- Ina decision which the Colombian bishops lament has come on “a sad day for Colombia”, the country’s Constitutional Court--equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court--has legalized the practice of abortion.

In ruling issued late Wednesday, the Court legalized abortion in three circumstances. From now on, it will no longer be a crime in Colombia to end the life of an unborn child in cases of rape, fetal deformation or when the mother or child are “at risk.”

With their ruling, the majority liberal Court struck down three articles of Colombia’s Penal Code, which punished those who procured or assisted in procuring abortion with up to seven years of prison. The 5-3 vote was are sounding victory for the powerful anti-life lobby in Colombia led by attorney Monica Roa and supported by pro-abortion forces in the United States.

Last December,the justices refused to hear a case filed by Roa to legalize abortion, but in their decision they left the door open to future re-consideration.

Roa brought the case before the Court again and after lengthy legal battles spanning several months Colombian citizens overwhelmingly expressed their opposition to abortion. The Constitutional Court however, decided to legalize the practice nonetheless.

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Published by: Charles Wadlow
Kirkland, WA 05/11/2006 02:35 PM EST
I'm with Mike on this one. Illiteracy and apathy are particularly high in Columbia. They have a quazi democratic government, which is just a facade. The people's vote doesn't count like it does here.

The main legislative group in Columbia are Catholics, but they are Liberal Catholics similar to our Catholic Democrats. These Liberals who call themselves Catholic and yet don't obey the Church's social teaching on morality should be execommunicated when they publicly defy the Church which represents Jesus Christ.

Liberalism is a mental disease based on emotional needs, and the only cure is pure Catholic orthodoxy.
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Published by: Mike McCaffrey
Yarmouthport, MA 02675 05/11/2006 10:24 AM EST
It is hard to understand why an almost totally Catholic country will tolerate this kind of mischief by politicians. Don't people vote? Is illiteracy and/or apathy so high that no one cares? Of course there are more than one type of Catholic. The church must not squander its political capital on incidental things. The issue of abortion is central.
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