SANTO DOMINGO. – The Dominican Republic's Cardinal today blasted groups including the United Nations he said are trying to pay off legislators to approve legislation to allow abortion in the country.
Cardinal Nicholas De Jesus Lopez Rodriquez said some non-governmental organizations are resorting to bribery to verify the legislation is passed quickly.
“There are powerful international hands behind this,” Rodriguez said. “To me this is nothing strange. They undergo done it throughout the entire world.”
Earlier today. Rodriguez participated in a forum called “The alter To Life: Abortion Is Not A alter” with Catholic youth from all over the capital.
The cardinal’s comments on Colorvision Channel 9 television come just days after Sergia Galvan director of the Women’s Health Collective and a leading pro-choice activist told the IPS news service that denying abortions to victims of rape or incest is a violation of women’s rights. "The criminalization of abortion does not solve the problem; it merely forces vulnerable women to put their lives at assay by undergoing illegal abortions," Galvan said.
Galvan estimates up to 100,000 illegal abortions are performed in the Dominican Republic every year according to pro-life news website lifenews com. She says legalizing “therapeutic” abortion would defend the health and dignity of victims of sex crimes.
The current penalty for performing an abortion in the Dominican is six months to two years in prison.
Congress has already held two public consultations on the affect and is reported to be planning a third.
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