Sergio Rubin
11/25/2020 12:26
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/25/2020 12:26 PM
In the week prior to the beginning of his treatment in Congress and three days of marches in the main cities of the country supported by the Church, Pope Francis
intervened directly for the first time
in the debate on the project to legalize abortion with a tough letter in which he says that "it is good to ask both questions" in the face of controversy: "Is it fair to eliminate a human life to solve a problem?
Is it fair to
hire a hit man
to solve a problem? "
The letter - which he sent by email to the celestial deputy Victoria Morales Gorleri (PRO) - is in response to another that women from the Rodrigo Bueno and 31 de Retiro villages, the city of Buenos Aires, and José sent him León Suárez, in the suburbs, in which they asked him to
intercede against the legal initiative
that was turned to parliament last week by the president of the Nation.
In the
handwritten and scanned
text
, the pontiff affirms that abortion "is not primarily a religious matter", but "of
human ethics
, prior to any religious confession", in what seemed a response to Alberto Fernández, who in a An interview on Sunday said when defending the project that he is not only the president of his fellow Catholics, but of all Argentines.
After thanking "the letter from the ladies", Francisco considered that "they really are women who know what life is like" and asked Deputy Morales Gorleri to "please tell them for me that I admire their work and their testimony;
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you do, and that you keep going "while stressing that" the country is proud to have such women. "
In the letter, the women express “the desire to ask
you to help us express to public opinion
that we feel we are imprisoned in a situation where our own family, our adolescent daughters and future generations are compromised, who are growing with the idea that our life is the unwanted one and that we do not have the right to have children because we are poor ”.
The Pope's response - in which he thanks them for "everything they do" - for him is dated November 22 and was posted on the Twitter account La Esperanza Puerto Madero @EsperanMadero, from the La Esperanza parish in Puerto Madero, Iglesia of the Heart of Jesus UCA, Virgin of Caacupé Chapel, Villa Rodrigo Bueno.
The project will begin to be discussed next week in the Chamber of Deputies in a
plenary session of four commissions
and it is estimated that between 30 and 60 exhibitors will participate;
It will be at the beginning of the extraordinary sessions of Congress and the ruling party hopes that it will become law before the end of the year.
The NGOs called pro-life called for a
demonstration against this Saturday
in the main cities throughout the country, an initiative to which the Catholic Church called to adhere “fervently” and the
majority of the evangelical churches
based in ACIERA did the same.
“I hope (the Pope) does not get angry, because he knows how much I admire and value him.
And that he understands that I have to solve
an Argentine public health problem,
"said the president on the program Corea del Centro on the NET TV channel on Sunday.
He recalled that when abortion was approved in France, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who was Catholic, told the then Pope Paul VI: "I rule for many French people who are not Catholic and I have to solve a public health problem."
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