Outrage in Brazil as health ministry prepares to instruct women on how to perform illegal abortions
by Matthew
Cullinan Hoffman
BRAZIL, July 12,
2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — When
Brazil’s lead presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff was confronted with her
pro-abortion past during the 2010 elections, she protested and claimed that she
was opposed to the killing of the unborn.
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| Dilma Rousseff and Obama in Brazil in 2011 |
Pro-lifers are
now crying foul as reports have begun to appear in the Brazilian media of plans
on the part of the Rousseff administration to instruct women on how to perform
chemical abortions, in the name of “reducing the damage caused by clandestine
abortions.”
Women who wish
to perform a “clandestine” abortion would inform the health ministry of their
plans, and receive training on how to perform the abortions, and would even be
given the drugs to do so, although they are currently illegal. They will then
be given free access to post-abortion medical care at state expense, according
to the reports.
Although the
Rousseff administration has not yet confirmed or denied the reports, Rousseff’s
pro-abortion Secretary of Women’s Policies, Eleonora Menicucci, recently told
the Folha de S. Paulo that it “is
only a crime to practice abortion itself, but it’s the government’s
understanding that it isn’t a crime to give guidance to women on how to carry
out an abortion.”
Menicucci, a
former Marxist activist who served time with President Rousseff while she was
jailed for terrorism in the early 1970s, has publicly
boasted of having performed multiple abortions on herself, as well has
having received training on how to perform abortions in Colombia. Abortion is
illegal in both Brazil and Colombia although it lacks a criminal penalty in a
very small minority of cases.
The revelations
have led to accusations by pro-lifers of Rousseff contradicting her claim of
opposing abortion during the 2010 elections.
The South One
division of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops has issued a statement
denouncing Rousseff’s about-face and asking her to fire her offending
ministers.
Rousseff’s
policy, they write, is to “create incentives for and to spread abortion,
favoring the interests of international organizations that want to impose
population control on developing countries, even if this brings the President
to disrespect the will of the majority of the Brazilian people, which is
against abortion, and to violate the most elemental rules of democracy.”
They call for
“the immediate firing of Minister Eleonora Menicucci from the Secretariat for
Women’s Policies” and the “immediate firing of the Secretary for Medical
Attention of the Ministry of Health, Helvecio Magalhaes, who is coordinating
the implantation of the new means to be taken by that Ministry.”
Source: LifesSiteNews,
via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
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