President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) criticized, this Tuesday (22), the decision of the Constitutional Court of Colombia to decriminalize abortion up to 24 weeks (6 months) in the country. The measure was voted on in an extraordinary session and passed by five votes in favor and four against on Monday (21). Until then, abortion was only allowed in Colombia for three reasons: the mother’s risk of losing her life; sexual violence or incest; and fetal malformation.
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Bolsonaro reinforced the current government’s commitment to the pro-life cause. “May God watch over the innocent lives of Colombian children, now subject to being taken with the consent of the State in their mothers’ wombs until the 6th month of pregnancy, without the slightest chance of defense. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll fight to the end to protect our children’s lives!” he said in a Twitter post.
In addition, the president also condemned the manifestations of the left on the subject. In one of them, Manuela D’Ávila (PCdoB), who was a candidate for vice president in the 2018 elections on the ticket of Fernando Haddad (PT), celebrated the decision of the Constitutional Court of Colombia through social networks, but deleted the tweet in sequence. Before that, however, netizens made prints of the content and shared it on the same platform throughout this Tuesday.
For this reason, Bolsonaro said: “In Brazil, the left celebrates and applauds the release of abortion until the 6th month of pregnancy, regrettably approved in Colombia. It is about the life of a baby who already has touch, smell, taste and who already hears his mother’s voice. What is the limit of this dehumanization of an innocent being?”.
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