ACI Digital, Oct 6, 2023 / 18:00 pm
The Special Bioethics Commission of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) expressed its opposition to the Complaint for Noncompliance with a Fundamental Precept (ADPF) 442, which proposes decriminalizing abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy.
In a statement signed by its president and the auxiliary bishop of Curitiba, Reginei José Modolo, the commission declared that “no circumstance, no purpose, no law in the world can ever make an act licit that is intrinsically illicit in its content, the voluntary and conscious death of human lives through abortion.”
ADPF 442 was filed in March 2017 with the Federal Supreme Court (STF) by the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL). The case went to trial Sept. 22 of this year during a virtual full session of the court with the court’s former president, Justice Rosa Weber, voting for the decriminalization of abortion.
After Weber’s vote, the trial was suspended at the request of Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, president of the STF since Sept. 28. So far there is no new date for the trial, which will take place in person, to resume.