{"id":295386,"date":"2023-07-28T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295386"},"modified":"2023-07-26T18:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:53:26","slug":"colombia-pro-life-signatures-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/colombia-pro-life-signatures-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia pro-life initiative gets enough signatures for the ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The leader of a ballot referendum initiative in Colombia has announced that her organization has collected enough signatures to send their initiative to the country’s congress for debate. The pro-life ballot initiative seeks to add amend a constitutional article to specify that the right to life starts at the moment of conception.<\/p>\n

Sara Castellanos heads the Referendum for Life initiative. The group’s goal is to amend Article 11 of the country\u2019s Magna Carta, which currently states \u201cthe right to life is inviolable. There shall be no death penalty,” and add the words \u201cfrom conception\u201d into the clause.<\/p>\n

Catholic News Agency reports<\/a> that the group has more than 2 million signatures to present to the National Registrar’s Office; 1.95 million signatures were necessary to advance the referendum. If the registrar’s office validates the signatures, the initiative will then go to Congress where it will be debated. If Congress approves, it will then hold a referendum.<\/p>\n

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Superamos las 2 millones de firmas y siguen llegando m\u00e1s \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffb pic.twitter.com\/g9TRabBPn7<\/a><\/p>\n

— Sara Castellanos (@sarag12) July 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n