Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep 12, 2007 / 09:30 am
The Corporation of Catholic Lawyers has denounced a ruling by a court in the city of Parana allowing a handicapped young woman to undergo an abortion, saying the ruling is based on “eugenic and racists doctrines” in the country’s Penal Code, and therefore called for the ruling to be revoked.
The case involves a mentally-disturbed young woman in Parana who became pregnant through rape. Judge Claudia Salomon’s initial ruling was in favor of the unborn child, but a higher court recently ruled to allow the abortion. The group of Catholic lawyers pointed out that the 1919 law upon which the ruling was based “was founded upon eugenic and racists doctrines that were in vogue, but whose proponents did not reveal that they were intended to sustain the National Socialist regime established in Germany in 1933.”