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Guatemala\u2019s president announced a wide-ranging pro-life policy he said \u201cguarantees the protection of life from its conception until its natural death,\u201d according to a recent <\/span>press release<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Alejandro Giammattei, a doctor and retired surgeon, presented a <\/span>major, wide-ranging initiative<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on July 25 that seeks to build a life-affirming society, with policies ranging from protecting preborn babies and pregnant mothers to providing social assistance to the elderly. President Giammattei described the initiative, called the \u201cPublic Policy for the Protection of Life and the Institutionality of the Family,\u201d as the \u201clargest inter-institutional coordination in history.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The measure consists of 99 coordinated initiatives across 11 government agencies. Specific initiatives include \u201cthe protection of pregnant mothers,\u201d as well as job promotion, elderly care and protection, reduction in school dropouts and malnutrition, and the combatting of sexual abuse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0Abortion activists expand their \u2018ideological colonization\u2019 to Latin America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The public problem that this policy will address is related to the protection of life and the institutional framework of the family to attend to the immediate needs of protection of life from its conception, early childhood, childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood and older adulthood to protect the family as the basic unit of society,\u201d President Giammattei said, according to the press release. Guatemala\u2019s constitution guarantees the right to life from conception, and abortion is only authorized in the case of a threat to the life of the mother (an exception that pro-lifers would argue is <\/span>unnecessary<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

The pro-life Asociacion La Familia Importa (AFI) <\/span>called<\/span><\/a> the policy \u201can important precedent for the country and the region, since it is the first that seeks to generate actions to protect the Guatemalan from conception, throughout the development of their life and until the last moment.\u201d According to AFI, the measure \u201csets a precedent to be replicated and taken as an example for other countries that defend these values.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Guatemala\u2019s pro-life initiative comes as abortion activists <\/span>continue to push<\/span><\/a> for abortion legalization in Latin America, especially in the aftermath of Argentina\u2019s legalization of abortion, which was due in large part to Planned Parenthood’s heavy lobbying<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Guatemala previously rejected Planned Parenthood\u2019s 2020 attempt to establish a foothold in the country, as reported by <\/span>CBN News<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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President Alejandro Giammattei, a doctor and retired surgeon, presented a major, wide-ranging initiative\u00a0on July 25 that seeks to build a life-affirming society, with policies ranging from protecting preborn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":250789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5,4,3473],"tags":[11705,980,11703,34,3118,11704],"yoast_head":"\nGuatemalan president launches wide-ranging pro-life initiative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Guatemala\u2019s president announced a wide-ranging pro-life policy he said \u201cguarantees the protection of life from its conception until its natural death.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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