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Abortion in Colombia: Church praises Congress for defying constitution
by Adriaan Alsema October 25, 2019
Colombia’s Catholic Church is opposing a government initiative to regulate abortion as ordered by the country’s Constitutional Court.
In a letter to Health Minister Juan Pablo Uribe, church leader Monsignor Juan Vicente Cordoba told the minister he “justifies his actions to comply with Constitutional Court order SU096 from 2018 reiterating its order to regulate abortion.”
According to the church leader, however, “the Ministry forgets that in the same sentence Congress was ordered to legislate on the matter and that this body has courageously abstained from doing so.”
The letter followed the publication of a draft bill in which the Health Ministry proposes to obligate hospitals and health intermediaries to have trained personnel to carry out abortions when this is legal.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/abortion-in-colombia-church-praises-congress-for-defying-constitution/
