{"id":258658,"date":"2021-12-10T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258658"},"modified":"2021-12-09T23:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:23:25","slug":"honduras-president-legalize-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/honduras-president-legalize-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"First female president of Honduras vows to legalize abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Honduras has long been a pro-life country, with abortion completely banned since 1982. The citizens have also elected a woman, Xiomara Castro, as president for the first time ever \u2014 but this news has been dampened by the fact that she wants to legalize abortion.<\/p>\n

Castro originally served as the First Lady to Honduras, but a coup in 2009 forced her husband, Manuel Zelaya, out of office. She began her own political career then, first leading protests against her husband’s coup, and now standing on her own as a member of the left-wing Libre Party.<\/p>\n

According to Reuters<\/a>, Castro ran on the vow to legalize abortion, promising to allow it in cases of rape, to save the mother’s life, and if the preborn child is disabled or has deformities. She also has vowed to allow the morning-after pill to be distributed and taken freely.<\/p>\n

The National Party opposed her election on the grounds that she would legalize abortion. \u201cWe declare ourselves totally against abortion and all the bad Hondurans who want to promote a perverse agenda and try to turn our country into a land covered in the blood of innocent babies,\u201d they wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Honduran National Congress officially amended the constitution<\/a> to give preborn children the legal right to personhood. It was a specific response to the legalization of abortion in Argentina, and the hope was that the constitutional amendment would be a “shield” against the same thing happening in Honduras.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Pro-abortion leader in Argentina dies after legally taking drug to induce abortion<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery human being has the right to life from the moment of conception,\u201d Congressman Mario P\u00e9rez, who introduced the amendment, said at the time.<\/p>\n

With Castro in office, that right to life may be threatened. However, she could still face an uphill battle to legalize abortion as she would need a three-quarter majority in Congress to do so. While the Libre Party hopes to gain control of Congress, at this time they are unlikely to gain the numbers needed to carry out Castro’s plans.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Castro would be making a mistake in taking her election as a sign that the Honduran people want abortion legalized. As the Guardian reported<\/a>, the National Party has faced massive controversy over the past several years for corruption and crime. Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, the outgoing president, has been accused of facilitating drug trafficking in Honduras, which he denies; his brother, however, was convicted in New York of drug trafficking, and United States prosecutors said the past three presidents \u2014 along with other leaders in all levels of government \u2014 have been linked to drug trafficking on such an extreme level as to make Honduras a “narco-state<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been discredited as a country of corrupt politicians, drug traffickers and thieves \u2013 and it\u2019s true,\u201d voter Crist\u00f3bal Ferrera told the Guardian. \u201cFor my children, for my grandchildren and for my country, may these corrupt people leave now, we do not want to continue suffering.”<\/p>\n

Another voter, Oliver Pendel, is a doctor who danced in the streets waving a Honduran flag after the election, saying, \u201cWe are celebrating because the corrupt are no longer going to govern Honduras.”<\/p>\n

It is this corruption and crime that the Honduran people are saying they want to change \u2014 not\u00a0necessarily the country’s laws on abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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