NEW YORK, August 2, 2007 (C-FAM.org) - At the latest round of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee meetings in New York, members of the CEDAW committee criticized Hondurans for their pro-life laws, telling their delegation that the total ban on abortions is a crime. Committee member Heisoo Shin told the Honduran delegation that it was necessary for the government to create a momentum, a social force that stops the crime that allows a woman to die, to risk unsafe abortion and not have self-determination.
When the Honduran delegation responded that government efforts were aimed at prevention of early and unwanted pregnancies, CEDAW member Silvia Pimentel, faculty member at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, fired back that the government had been as comprehensive as possible on prevention and that there are situations where prevention is not enough. She continued, Women have their reasons to seek an abortion, which should be respected. Pimentel admitted that those reasons did not always include a threat to the mothers life, but that she could not understand the abortion ban in Honduras where the interests of the fetus outweigh those of the mother.
United Nations tells Hondurans that Abortion Ban is A Crime
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