{"id":18857,"date":"2009-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/?p=18857"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T21:00:00","slug":"bishops-slam-abortion-rights-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2009\/10\/bishops-slam-abortion-rights-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops slam abortion rights bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LIMA, Oct 13 &#8211; Peru&#8217;s Roman Catholic bishops slammed a bill allowing abortion in rape and fetal deformity cases, calling it a &quot;death penalty&quot; for embryos in a country where capital punishment is illegal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Life is a right from its conception&#8230; any attempt to justify the elimination of children about to be born into illness or disability brings to light our difficulty in accepting sick people,&quot; the Peruvian Bishops Conference (CEP) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Spearheaded by Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the church has openly lobbied lawmakers to drop proposed legislation to legalize elective abortion for rape cases or when the fetus is deformed.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was approved by a parliamentary committee a week ago, sending it for debate in the full Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Cipriani denied allegations made in a report by civil groups that said some 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year in Peru.<\/p>\n<p>The CEP said life should not be terminated for any reason, neither for rape nor to save the life of the expectant mother.<\/p>\n<p>The notion that &quot;the mother&#8217;s life is worth more than her child&#8217;s is arbitrary and false,&quot; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Since we&#8217;ve done away with the death penalty in Peru for even the worst criminals, how can we accept the death penalty for an embryo that hasn&#8217;t even had the time to commit a mistake and cannot even defend itself?&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Oct 13 &#8211; Peru&#8217;s Roman Catholic bishops slammed a bill allowing abortion in rape and fetal deformity cases, calling it a &quot;death penalty&quot; for embryos in a country where capital punishment is illegal. &quot;Life is a right from its conception&#8230; any attempt to justify the elimination of children about to be born into illness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12319,"featured_media":18858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bishops slam abortion rights bill &#187; 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