ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada condemns abortion

Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruño urged Guatemalans to defend the right of conception, in addition to condemn abortion, which is murder of children, he said.

During Sunday Mass, Cardinal stressed that abortion is a reprehensible crime, because it is ”murder of a child in the womb.”

In addition, the Head of the Catholic Church explained that there are people who do not understand, and ”reduce the meaning of human life to just a simple fetus.”

Quezada stated that for the Catholic Church, the beginning of life is conception. ”Everyone has the right to be born, and everything that is done intentionally to obstruct the right to life is a crime,” he said.

He referred to some antagonistic groups and feminists who have indicated interest in their body and therefore can do whatever they want with it.

”Things must be called by their name; a crime can not ever become law,” he said.

The Cardinal stressed: ”Nobody, under any circumstances, can attribute directly the right to kill an innocent human being.”

Quezada reported that in Guatemala are practiced about 16 thousand abortions each year.

What qualifies as a crime

”I do not call it abortion, it is the murder of children in the womb of a mother,” he said, adding that feminist groups should know that.

Quezada said: ”It’s just as serious as commiting a murder against a 10-year-old child or an adult of 30, against which a baby in the womb.”

Just last week, some 300 women from various organizations gathered in front of the Congress to protest against the deputies who signed the book of life, on the grounds that it violates their right to ”owning your own body.”