Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov 1, 2004 / 22:00 pm
A week after the Supreme Court of Brazil decided to suspend permission for anacephaly abortions, the Vice President of the Brazilian Bishops Conference, Bishop Antonio Celso Queiroz, said legalizing this type of abortion was to open the door to abortion on demand.
According to Bishop Queiroz, if abortion were accepted for this reason, future mothers would be tempted to obtain abortions “because their babies were not the sex they wanted or their eyes were not the color they had wanted.”
A few days ago, the Bishops expressed their satisfaction with the decision of the Court and said it “reaffirms the principle of full respect for the dignity and life of the human being no matter what its stage of development or condition.”
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