Posted on 03/02/2020 11:08:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled on Monday to maintain the status quo on the country’s abortion law, which allows a pregnancy to be terminated under three specific situations. The decision ended weeks of debate about whether to expand abortion rights in the Latin American nation.
Abortion is illegal in Colombia, but the procedure can be performed in case of rape or incest, if there are fatal fetal abnormalities, or if the pregnancy endangers the mother’s physical or mental health. These exceptions have been in place since 2006.
The court’s ruling came in response to a legal challenge that sought to reinstate a ban on abortions in all circumstances. But a proposal had also been filed last month for the judges to consider allowing all abortions in the first trimester. […]
A deeply Catholic nation, polls showed that a majority of Colombians would be against expanding abortion rights. …
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There, that's how the court opened the door to the holocaust of abortion in that country. The article is WRONG.
There, that's how the court opened the door to the holocaust of abortion in that country. The article is WRONG.
The Answer to the court is for the government to say that the court may not legislate a decision as important as this and that it asks the legislature to do its job.
In the U.S., the government has never stood up to the court's legislating and let Satan's minions have their way to this day.
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