Posted on 03/09/2022 8:49:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemalan lawmakers have increased prison sentences for women who have abortions, bucking a recent trend in Latin America toward expanding access to the procedures.
As some of Latin America’s largest countries — Mexico, Argentina, Colombia — have expanded abortion access in the past two years, there remain countries where conservative religious trends continue to hold sway.
Late Tuesday — International Women’s Day — Guatemala’s Congress passed a “Protection of Life and Family” law that also targeted the LGBTQ community.
On Wednesday, which Guatemala’s Congress declared “Life and Family Day,” President Alejandro Giammattei said in a speech at the National Palace, “This event is an invitation to unite as Guatemalans to protect life from conception until natural death.”
Guatemalan women convicted of terminating their pregnancies can now face sentences up to 10 years that before were a maximum of three. The Congress imposed even heavier penalties for doctors and others who assist women in ending pregnancies.
Abortions are legal only when the life of the mother is at risk.
Lawmakers backing the legislation said the law was necessary because “minority groups in society propose ways of thinking and practices that are incongruous with Christian morality.”
Lawmaker Vicenta Gerónimo, who voted against the legislation, said it violates human rights, especially of women in rural areas where there isn’t a government health infrastructure.
The legislation passed with 101 votes in favor and 8 against. Fifty-one lawmakers were not present.
Jordan Rodas, Guatemala’s elected human rights prosecutor, said Guatemala was regressing by limiting women’s rights at a time the world was expanding them. He added that those supporting sexual diversity are not seeking privileges, “but want to live free of stigma and discrimination.”
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How soon till this country joins Russia on the “Cancel” list?
Go Guatemala!
Seems not everyone is on the speed train to hell.
Guatebuena
Time for a Color Revolution and Regime Change.
good
I wonder what real estate prices are out that way. Might be nice.
Last week it was guacamole, what next
I wonder if they are doing this for the right reasons, or have been pushed to it by lefist elites eager for even greater swarms of asylum applicants.
They were having a big sale after Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, but looks like the demand is way up again and so are probably the prices.
Good.
Abortion is murder.
My next vacation will be in Guatemala !
“The legislation passed with 101 votes in favor and 8 against.”
Impressive!
No foreign aid for you!
The guy on the “Sabbatical” YT channel records his visits to the far corners of the Earth. He recently visited Guatemala, and as he walked along the beach talking to the people I got a sense of true freedom. The native language there is English, and they have recently made a major oil discovery.
Guatemalans seen to be a religious people and all but that's one dangerous country even for a reckless adventurer like me. I can't describe how good New Jersey looked after returning from there.
Looks like you forgot the '/S' tag there Duke. The official language of Guatemala is Spanish and some folks in the hinterland don't even speak that; they only know some Mayan patois.
I didn’t mean that seriously :) Costa Rica I hear is nice, not so El Salvador and Guatemala.
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