{"id":200609,"date":"2019-04-22T06:08:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=200609"},"modified":"2019-04-20T00:44:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:44:35","slug":"jamaican-pro-life-parliament-solutions-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jamaican-pro-life-parliament-solutions-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican pro-life group to Parliament: Women need ‘real solutions,’ not abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Jamaican organization Love March Movement (LMM), a Christian, youth-led pro-life group, is fighting efforts in Parliament that would de-criminalize abortion. The group is also fighting for better alternatives for women, including better adoption guidelines, more funding for pregnancy resource centers, and an increase in initiatives to help women who have a child.<\/p>\n

In an address to a Parliamentary committee on April 10, the pro-life group asked for a review of the guidelines for the adoption process in an effort to make it easier for children to be matched with families.\u00a0In speaking to the committee, Francesca Travers, vice-president of LMM, referenced statistics from the Child Protection and Family Services Agency, which revealed that as of January, there were 100 potential adoptive families waiting to be matched with a child.<\/p>\n

“That should not be the case. We want to encourage this committee to recommend real solutions; it’s counter-productive to want to encourage a society that respects human life when we don’t respect the most vulnerable amongst us,” said<\/a> Travers. \u00a0“Jamaica’s youths deserve better than abortion. Abortion is a cheap, careless mask for deep-rooted pervasive complex problems that are undermining our society, such as rape, fatherlessness and a lack of respect for human life. Abortion never heals a pregnant woman’s trauma or crisis.”<\/p>\n