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10-26-2007, 02:50 PM
The Catholic Church is on the offensive with its desire to discourage Congress from the decriminalization of abortion in its revision of the Penal Code. The Church has rallied students at Catholic schools to protest and took a large group of children to the Congress yesterday. Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez boarded a helicopter yesterday to fly over Santo Domingo and rally the support of protesters who gathered on some street corners in favor of keeping the absolute criminalization of abortion in the code. During the march hundreds of religious groups, Catholic schools and evangelicals met in front of Congress holding signs and voicing their concerns on the subject.
Presidential hopeful Amable Aristy Castro made an appearance at the march and claimed that President Leonel Fernandez was trying to legalize abortion. Diario Libre reports that Aristy loaned the Church a sound system and a helicopter for the occasion. On Sunday there will also be a march, this time on the Malecon, culminating in a vigil rejecting the legalization of abortion. The Catholic Church is calling on its followers to join Sunday's march.
The proposed reform of the law, which as it stands prohibits abortion under all circumstances, would decriminalize abortion in certain cases, such as when the mother's life is in danger, or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
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Presidential hopeful Amable Aristy Castro made an appearance at the march and claimed that President Leonel Fernandez was trying to legalize abortion. Diario Libre reports that Aristy loaned the Church a sound system and a helicopter for the occasion. On Sunday there will also be a march, this time on the Malecon, culminating in a vigil rejecting the legalization of abortion. The Catholic Church is calling on its followers to join Sunday's march.
The proposed reform of the law, which as it stands prohibits abortion under all circumstances, would decriminalize abortion in certain cases, such as when the mother's life is in danger, or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)