Posted on 01/21/2023 6:21:07 PM PST by marshmallow
Socialist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the current president of Brazil, removed that country this week from the list of signatories to the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a global document originally signed by 32 countries opposing abortion as a form of family planning and affirming the inherent “dignity and worth” of human life.
Brazil signed the American-led declaration in 2020 under conservative, pro-life President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost to Lula in a bitterly contested presidential race last year.
Lula, the Ministry of Health confirmed last week, also revoked an ordinance passed under Bolsonaro that required health workers to report abortions to law enforcement in case of rape and preserve “possible material evidence” that could be used to put a rapist behind bars. Pro-abortion activists and feminist groups objected to the ordinance on the grounds that the woman in question did not need to approve the transfer of information related to her rape and abortion to the police.
The measures against the pro-life movement by the nascent third Lula administration follow a tumultuous beginning to the hardline socialist’s new tenure. Lula, convicted of taking bribes while president and previously sentenced to nearly 25 years in prison after multiple appeals failed, appeared on the ballot as a presidential contender last year after the nation’s highest court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), overturned the convictions on procedural grounds. Lula opponents argue that a convicted felon should not legally be allowed on the ballot and a subsection of Bolsonaro supporters have protested insisting that the Brazilian constitution allows the armed forces to remove an illegitimate president. The protests led to a thousands-strong riot in Brasilia on January 8 that destroyed the STF building, resulted in major damage to the Brazilian Congress, and some substantial damage to the Planalto Palace, where the president’s offices.....
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A political philosophy that is OK with killing those who are inconvenient. And that’s not limited to fetuses.
The US will become North Brazil in a couple generations.
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Are you sure it will take that long?
No, I was being lenient.
Morally, demographically, politically, economically…everything is heading in the wrong direction.
I honestly don’t think he cared, but he knows his bankers do.
Does it sound like the Roman Empire?
Pretty much, but worse and faster.
I think you are right.
Don’t think so. But you will see a revolution within the next five years when the army has had enough of Lulas bull dust.
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