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Costa Rican Christians condemn UN pressure to decriminalize abortion

Updated: August 31, 2023 at 5:57 pm EST  See Comments

Thu Aug 31, 2023 – 5:10 pm EDT

(LifeSiteNews) – An evangelical group is pushing back against the United Nations’ efforts to pressure Costa Rica to decriminalize abortion, warning that the push is an attack on the Central American nation’s sovereignty.

Last month, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Tlaleng Mofokeng issued a preliminary report on the state of health care in Costa Rica for the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures body of so-called independent experts.

The report noted that abortion “is considered a crime” in Costa Rica, “infringing Article 21 of the Constitution and regulated by the Criminal Code. It is not punished in cases when the life or health of the mother is in danger if the abortion could not be avoided by other means. Doctors who suspect that a woman undertook an abortion have the obligation to report it to the Organization of Judicial Investigation.”

This supposedly violates “key principles of human rights,” specifically the “goal of realizing the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.”

“Criminal and legal restrictions on abortion are discriminatory in nature, restricting autonomy and interfere with the patient-doctor relationship, impacting access to health services,

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