Life Under Siege - The Global War on the Unborn Continues in 2019

Ecuadorian National Assembly 

Jonathan Abbamonte
Population Research Institute


We are only one week into 2019 and pro-abortion advocates are already hard at work chipping away the right to life for the unborn.

In the U.S., a newly inaugurated House of Representatives on day one began attempting to repeal the Trump administration's Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy (PLGHA) (a.k.a. the "Mexico City Policy"). The Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy blocks hundreds of millions of federal foreign aid dollars from being spent on foreign pro-abortion NGOs like the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Marie Stopes International. A provision nullifying PLGHA was included in the House spending bill, which passed the House on January 3 on a vote of 241–190. However, the White House issued an official statement indicating that President Trump will veto the measure if the provision nullifying PLGHA is not removed from the bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has also vowed not to consider any legislation that "cannot pass [the Senate] and which the president will not sign."

On the state level, a federal court in Kansas has overturned a state law which would have prohibited webcam abortions.

Overseas, January 1st marked the beginning of legalized abortion on-demand in Ireland up to 12 weeks gestation and up to 6 months gestation in cases of health of the mother and fetal disability. To add insult to injury, abortions in Ireland will be fully taxpayer-funded and there will be no exemption for healthcare workers to conscientiously object from providing abortion referrals under certain circumstances. Furthermore, Catholic hospitals will be denied the institutional right to conscientiously object to providing abortion services.

In the South American nation of Ecuador pro-abortion lawmakers are pushing to change the nation's penal code to allow abortion in cases of rape, incest, and fetal disability.

Last Thursday, the Ecuadorian National Assembly began reviewing a set of recommendations from the "Commission of Justice and Structure of the State" to revise the country's penal code. Among the recommendations offered by the Commission was a proposal to legalize "abortion in cases of rape, malformation of the fetus that makes its life unviable, statutory rape, incest, and nonconsensual insemination."

Read Here: Ecuadorian Legislature Debates Legalizing Abortion in Cases of Rape and Fetal Disability

 

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