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Mexican bishop discusses his leadership of two pro-abortion organizations
Lima, Peru, Aug 8, 2011 / 03:53 pm (CNA).- The controversy surrounding Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of Saltillo, Mexico has intensified after comments he made in support of the decriminalization of abortion.
The website LifeSiteNews.com published a report on Aug. 3 revealing that the bishop heads two human rights organizations that openly promote the reversal of pro-life legislation enacted in a majority of Mexican states.
In explaining his leadership role in the two organizations that support the decriminalization of abortion, Bishop Vera said, “What is debated here in Mexico is the penalization or depenalization of abortion. That’s another thing. The penalization (of abortion) is the persecution of people who have abortions.”
Since January 28, 2011, Bishop Vera has been president of the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Center for Human Rights in the Mexican state of Chiapas, where several years ago he served as coadjutor bishop for the late Bishop Samuel Ruiz. He is also the founder of the Fray Juan de Larios Diocesan Center for Human Rights, located in the Diocese of Saltillo.
Both groups belong to a network of organizations that uphold abortion as a fundamental human right. The network openly supported the legalization of abortion in Mexico City in 2007.
The two groups led by Bishop Vera are also signers of a document published in June 2008 opposing constitutional reform in the state of Jalisco that enshrined the right to life from the moment of conception. The Jalisco State Congress adopted the reform in July 2009.
In 2011, the Fray Juan de Larios Diocesan Center also signed a report prepared by the U.N. Human Rights High Commissioner on “access to justice for women who are victims of violence, female killings, sexual violence, disappearances and the sex trade.” It also condemned the lack of access to legal abortion in cases of rape in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
Bishop Vera told LifeSiteNews.com that abortion “is the murder of a child in the womb of his mother,” but that in his opinion to support depenalization is not the same as being pro-abortion.
CNA attempted to confirm the bishop’s statements to LifeSiteNews.com, but Maria Eugenia Arriaga, the director of communications for the Diocese of Saltillo, said they would not give any interviews “to people who distort our information.”
catholicnewsagency.com/news/mexican-bishop-discusses-his-leadership-of-two-pro-abortion-organizations/
Lima, Peru, Aug 8, 2011 / 03:53 pm (CNA).- The controversy surrounding Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of Saltillo, Mexico has intensified after comments he made in support of the decriminalization of abortion.
The website LifeSiteNews.com published a report on Aug. 3 revealing that the bishop heads two human rights organizations that openly promote the reversal of pro-life legislation enacted in a majority of Mexican states.
In explaining his leadership role in the two organizations that support the decriminalization of abortion, Bishop Vera said, “What is debated here in Mexico is the penalization or depenalization of abortion. That’s another thing. The penalization (of abortion) is the persecution of people who have abortions.”
Since January 28, 2011, Bishop Vera has been president of the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Center for Human Rights in the Mexican state of Chiapas, where several years ago he served as coadjutor bishop for the late Bishop Samuel Ruiz. He is also the founder of the Fray Juan de Larios Diocesan Center for Human Rights, located in the Diocese of Saltillo.
Both groups belong to a network of organizations that uphold abortion as a fundamental human right. The network openly supported the legalization of abortion in Mexico City in 2007.
The two groups led by Bishop Vera are also signers of a document published in June 2008 opposing constitutional reform in the state of Jalisco that enshrined the right to life from the moment of conception. The Jalisco State Congress adopted the reform in July 2009.
In 2011, the Fray Juan de Larios Diocesan Center also signed a report prepared by the U.N. Human Rights High Commissioner on “access to justice for women who are victims of violence, female killings, sexual violence, disappearances and the sex trade.” It also condemned the lack of access to legal abortion in cases of rape in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
Bishop Vera told LifeSiteNews.com that abortion “is the murder of a child in the womb of his mother,” but that in his opinion to support depenalization is not the same as being pro-abortion.
CNA attempted to confirm the bishop’s statements to LifeSiteNews.com, but Maria Eugenia Arriaga, the director of communications for the Diocese of Saltillo, said they would not give any interviews “to people who distort our information.”
catholicnewsagency.com/news/mexican-bishop-discusses-his-leadership-of-two-pro-abortion-organizations/