by David Ramos
ACI Press
With 32 votes in favor, one against and one abstention, this September 28 the Congress of the Mexican state of Sinaloa approved a constitutional reform that “shields” human life from conception.
Since 2007, when Mexico City under the government of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) legalized abortion, there have been 19 Mexican states that approved their local constitutions to defend human life from conception.
In a dialogue with ACI Prensa, Rodrigo Iván Cortés, president of the National Front for the Family (FNF), stressed that the approval of the constitutional reform came about with “a great consensus” and “in a forceful way”.
In the new article 4 of the Constitution of Sinaloa reads: “Everyone has the right to have their lives respected. The State protects the right to life from the moment an individual is conceived, enters under the protection of the Law and is considered as born for all legal purposes, until his natural death.
The constitutional reform approved by Congress must be ratified in the following weeks by the majority of municipalities in the state of Sinaloa.
Rodrigo Iván Cortés said that “this is made possible, on the one hand, by the leadership of the National Front of the Family in the state of Sinaloa,” and highlighted the work of Carmen Balcázar and her brother, the pro-life doctor Juan Carlos Balcázar.
He said that they joined the deputy Juan Pablo Yumani, National Action Party (PAN), which assumed “the commitment to present this initiative to amend Article 4, to put the defense of the right to life from its inception, and that is backed by many other legislators, including Tania Morgan, also a local deputy of the PAN. ”
For Cortés, this modification to the Sinaloa Constitution “is a ray of light in a very cloudy time”, because in these days several organizations celebrated the legalization of abortion in Mexico City and demanded that this condition be extended to the whole country.
Among these groups are the nearly 20 deputies of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), of the elected president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who announced at a press conference on September 27 that they will seek to legalize abortion throughout the country.
Days ago, recalled the president of the National Front for the Family, the parliamentary group of the PRD wanted to modify the Constitution of the country “to make legal at the national level what the PRD has been doing for several years in Mexico City.”
Cortés also referred to the manifestations of the “green scarves”, organized by groups financed “by international bodies such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Ford Foundation and especially the Open Society of George Soros, which bring back the abortion business” .
It is estimated that around 200,000 abortions have been practiced in the public institutions of Mexico City since their legalization. However, some estimate that if those performed in private clinics, such as Marie Stopes, were included, the two million would be reached.
For the president of the National Front for the Family, “the people killed through this organized crime ‘legal’ in Mexico City, with the administration of the PRD, already exceed the victims of organized crime ‘illegal’, which total 200 thousand ”
Various international organizations have also been lobbying for months for the state of Veracruz to legalize abortion.
In this context, Cortés stressed, the news of the constitutional reform in Sinaloa underpins the call for the marches for life convened by the National Front for the Family throughout the country, for October 20.
“Throughout the Republic we will have marches and rallies. In Mexico City we will have a symbolic act, which will accompany the marches. ”
He said that this symbolic act is convened at 11:00 a.m. (local time) at the Monument to the Mother.
“There we are going to represent in a creative way what is the importance of motherhood, of welcoming life, and we are going to make a denunciation of what these transnationals of abortion, of the inhuman business of abortion, intend to do in all of Mexico,” he said.
