Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jul 6, 2004 / 22:00 pm
As tension mounts concerning the possible nomination of Carmen Argibay, an open pro-abortion justice, to the Argentinean Supreme Court, President Nestor Kirchner has sent an informal message to the Vatican to give assurances that abortion will remain illegal during his term.
According to reports, last week Kirchner took the opportunity of a visit by Juan Carlos Blumberg to express his convictions about abortion. Blumberg is an engineer who has become very popular in the country for his campaign “Axel Blumberg”--in honor of his son who was kidnapped and murdered--which seeks to bring the plague of kidnappings in the country to an end.
The Catholic Church in Argentina recently arranged for Blumberg to visit the Vatican and personally greet Pope John Paul II.
“President Kirchner and his wife, Cristina Fernandez, are decidedly against abortion,” Blumberg told Argentinean Archbishop Leonardo Sandri of the Vatican’s Secretary of State Office.