In the statement, the Brazilian Bishop’s Conference, (CNBB) stresses that it is “necessary to remember that any attack against life is also an aggression against the Democratic State of Law and constitutes attacks on dignity and social welfare.

Newsroom (January 19, 2023, 11:34 AM, Gaudium Press) The federal government has communicated Brazil’s withdrawal from the Geneva Consensus Declaration, an international agreement in defense of life, whereby “abortion should not be promoted as a method of family planning in any case.”

Furthermore, the Minister of Women stated that she will defend the right to legal abortion during her term.

For this reason, the CNBB released a note this Wednesday morning, January 18, disapproving “any initiative that signals the flexibilization of abortion. And it asks the Federal Government for clarification on this disengagement of Brazil with the Geneva Convention, considering that the defense of the unborn child was a commitment made during a campaign.”

In the statement, the CNBB stresses that it is “necessary to remember that any attack against life is also an aggression against the Democratic State of Law and constitutes attacks on dignity and social welfare”, and “calls for everyone to unite in the defense and protection of life in all its stages – a mission that requires a commitment to the poor, to pregnant women and their families, especially to defenseless unborn life.

Compiled by Zephania Gangl