Tag Archives: Country: Mexico

EWTN: “In an editorial published yesterday, the news agency for the Archdiocese of Mexico City emphasized that the decision by the country’s attorney general to challenge the legalization of same-sex ‘marriage’ does not constitute discrimination. The paper added that homosexuals cannot “bestow rights upon themselves,” such as adoption because it violates the rights of children.”

Catholic News Agency: “A legal expert from the Institute for Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Jorge Adame Goddard, said last week that Mexico City’s recent decision to allow same-sex ‘marriage’ and homosexual adoption are both ‘unconstitutional.’”

Washington Post: “The federal Attorney General’s Office said in a statement that it believes the law ‘violates the principle of legality, because it strays from the constitutional principle of protecting the family.’”

Christian Telegraph: “The Catholic Church in Mexico has faced a violent reaction from homosexualists in the country who are upset over the Mexican bishops’ strong defence of natural marriage, reports Agenzia Fides.”

CNA: “Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera reiterated this week that leaders of the Church cannot be silent in the face of attacks on marriage and the family – such as those by Mexico City lawmakers who approved same-sex unions and granted them the right to adopt children.”

Catholic Culture: “A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico City has accused the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution– one of the nation’s three largest political parties– of displaying ‘its true face … intolerance and hatred toward the Catholic Church’ and waging war against Mexican society by supporting same-sex marriage and the adoption of children by homosexuals.”

AZ Republic: “In a move to crack down on weapons from the U.S. that are funneled to drug cartels, police in Latin America will soon be able to track American gun sales in their own language, despite privacy concerns by gun-rights advocates . . . Springfield, Va.-based Gun Owners of America, noted that many Mexican police have been charged with passing other types of sensitive information to criminals in recent years.”

Medical News Today: “In response to a Mexican Supreme Court ruling in August 2008 upholding a Mexico City law permitting abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, 17 of 32 Mexican states have approved amendments to their constitutions declaring that life begins at conception and granting legal rights to fetuses, the Chicago Tribune reports.”

Associated Pressa: “Mexico City enacted Latin America’s first law recognizing gay marriage Tuesday and said it hopes to attract same-sex couples from around the world to wed.”

LA Times: “A year after the Supreme Court upheld a Mexico City law allowing abortion in the first trimester, 17 states have amended their constitutions to protect the unborn.”

The AP is reporting that lawmakers in Mexico City have voted to redefine marriage.

CNA: “The president of the College of Catholic Lawyers of Mexico, Armando Martinez, criticized a proposed measure this week that would make homosexual unions equal to marriage.”

CNA: The president of the College of Catholic Lawyers of Mexico, Armando Martinez, expressed regret this week that the Mexico City Legislative Assembly is not concerned with ‘real social problems’ and is instead dedicated to promoting gay ‘marriage’ through a reform of the Civil Code.”

CNA: “After pointing out that man and woman were created to form a couple capable of passing on love, Bishop Nolasco said other kinds of unions such as those between people of the same sex, cannot be called families, since ‘rather than fostering unity,’ these unions ‘attack family values.’”

“Earlier this month, 150 Mexican women from the state of Morelos filed a petition . . . to declare Mexico as responsible for the violation of human’s rights of women . . . [due to personhood amendments] . . . ”

CNA: “The group of Catholic lawyers argues that passage of the measure legalizing abortion, which occurred on April 24, 2007, violates Article 1 of the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man.”

LifeSiteNews reports: “The Mexican government is distributing millions of pamphlets to children and adolescents in public schools, informing them of their ‘right’ to receive the abortifacient “morning after pill,” after sexual intercourse.”

Catholic News Agency: “The Mexican State of Yucatan has passed a reform of its constitution enshrining the right to life from conception to natural death as the first and fundamental of all human rights.”

Reuters: “Around 1,000 Catholic priests face constant threats from drug gangs across Mexico and as many as 400 have been directly warned to silence their criticisms of narco violence and extortions or be killed, the Mexican Bishop’s Conference says.”

LifeSiteNews: The amendment reads: “The State of San Luis Potosi recognizes human life as fundamental for all human rights, for which reason it is respected and protected from the moment of its initiation in conception.”

LA Times editorial: “More than 17,000 people were smuggled or trafficked into the United States last year. Some were duped into believing that jobs awaited them and instead were forced into debt peonage, required to work in orchards and fields or as housemaids to reimburse the cost of their transport. Others, mostly women and children, were trafficked into sex slavery, and still others were shipped in by boat or brought across the Mexican border by organized smuggling rings.”

CNA: “The Nayarit State Congress in Mexico has passed a reform of the state’s constitution that guarantees the right to life of all human beings from conception to natural death.”

LifeSiteNews reports: “The amendment, which passed [Nayarit's] legislature 27-3 with zero abstentions, was supported by a broad spectrum of legislators ranging from the conservative National Action Party (PAN) to the liberal Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), to the socialist Labor Party (PT). It was introduced by PRI representative Roberto Mejia Perez.”

USA Today: “Time magazine, in an in-depth story on the case and its repercussions published in February, reported that ‘the tremors are being felt across hundreds of Mexican indigenous communities that use forms of bride prices — which can include farm animals and soda as well as cash and beer.’”

Latin American Herald Tribune: Miguel Antonio Galán has become the first openly gay politician to run for a mayorship in Mexico, throwing his hat into the ring in the race for the city hall of the populous and traditionalist city of Guadalajara, the Mexican Social Democratic Party, or PSD, said.

LifeSiteNews: The official international development organization of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is funding groups in Mexico that are pressuring the Mexican government to legalize abortion, LifeSiteNews has learned. The five pro-abortion groups have received $170,000 in total this …

LifeSiteNews: Despite fierce opposition, political maneuvering, and disruptive protests meant to stop the process, the Congress of the Mexican State of Puebla has approved an amendment protecting the right to life “from the moment of conception to natural death, except in cases foreseen by law.”

LifeSiteNews: “Mexican health officials have acceded to the demands of international pro-abortion organizations to require public hospitals to provide abortions in cases of rape . . . “

Catholic Culture: “But Casey spokesman Larry Smar said that the Mexico City policy was a question of support for family planning, not for abortion. Bishop Martino had explicitly rejected that argument in an open letter to Casey, saying: ‘The Mexico …

LifeSiteNews: “Plans by Mexican socialists to spread the legalization of abortion to Mexico’s 31 states have stalled even in states they control, according to the Mexico City newspaper El Universal . . . “

LifeSiteNews: “In an overwhelming 19-0 vote, legislators in the state of Colima, Mexico, decided Tuesday to amend the state’s constitution to protect the right to life ‘from the moment of conception.’”

They will be able to take your money and use it to promote the legalization of abortion — at all stages of pregnancy — in countries that heretofore have banned the procedure. They will now have deep pockets — because of your paychecks, my fellow Americans, and fellow American Catholics — to drastically outspend far poorer pro-life groups within those countries. America will be vigorously exporting the culture of death to those nations, through groups like International Planned Parenthood, and via the hard-earned money that you make at your job.

LifeSiteNews.com: The Mexican State of Colima has become the latest to reject an initiative by Mexican socialists to legalize abortion, in a 19-1 vote in the state Congress. The representative who formulated the law, Adolfo Nunez Gonzales of the Party …

SunJournal.com reports: Arguing that he uses marijuana for religious reasons, a 48-year-old Mexican man has filed suit against the state and two law enforcement agencies, charging violation of his constitutional rights . . . Hutchinson charges the agencies with violating …

AFP: “In a video address on the last day of the World Meeting of Families here Sunday, the pontiff argued with more than 22,000 people on hand that, ‘due to its essential social function, the family has the right to …

The International Court of Justice has ruled that the United States defied its order when authorities in Texas last year executed a Mexican convicted of rape and murder . . .

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Mexico’s Social Democratic Party held a protest outside of the World Encounter of Families conference yesterday, denouncing the notion that a natural family consists of a permanent union between a man and a woman . . . “

LifeSiteNews reports: The leadership of Mexico’s socialist Social Democratic Party (PSD) has issued a demand to Mexico City’s Cardinal Archbishop Norberto Rivera that he and the Church stop opposing its initiatives to legalize abortion, homosexual “marriage” and euthanasia, or face …

The Houston Chronicle reports:  Greenfield Police Chief Joe Grebmeier said on Monday that his officers keep hearing rumors of arranged marriages between girls and older men . . . Until one case broke last weekend, Grebmeier said, it has been difficult …

When transsexuals or transgender persons in the Mexican capital have their birth certificates altered to reflect their change in identity, is it legal to include a notation on the new document indicating that Ms Y used to be Mr X?

CNA reports: “By a vote of 27-5, the Sonora State Congress in Mexico amended the state’s constitution and enshrined protection of human life from conception to natural death, closing the door to legal efforts to expand abortion . . . …

CNA reports: “The Archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, said this week those who promote and approve laws in favor of abortion are outside the Catholic Church and should not receive Communion.”

The Archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, slammed lawmakers in the state of Jalisco for ignoring a grassroots initiative supported by 53,000 signatures that calls for the protection of the unborn, when they decided to postpone debate on the measure until next year.

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling affirming the constitutionality of Mexico City’s abortion law, which allows a woman to kill her unborn baby for any reason during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, liberal lawmakers are …

Catholic Church authorities in Mexico City will consecrate a Sanctuary of the Victims of Abortion today, which is to be located in a cemetery, following a Supreme Court ruling declaring the city’s abortion law constitutional.

The AP reports: “Mexico’s Supreme Court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold legal abortion in the capital, opening the possibility that similar measures could be adopted elsewhere in Mexico – and perhaps beyond.”

The Supreme Court indicated Wednesday it will uphold a Mexico City law allowing abortion that has divided the country.

AFP reports: “Mexico’s top court on Monday began debate on a bid to reverse a law which allows abortions in the country’s capital.”

The ACLU said Oscar “Diana” Santander should be released while the government appeals an immigration judge’s ruling in May that granted Santander asylum because she would be at risk of torture if deported to Mexico.

Abortion rights advocates are using the XVII International AIDS Conference taking place this week in Mexico City to advance a pro-abortion agenda and to criticize the Catholic Church for not blessing the distribution of condoms. Known as “AIDS 2008,”

The Washington Times reports: “A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded …

Reuters reports: A global AIDS conference that opens in Mexico City on Sunday is meant for people infected with HIV, but transsexual sex worker Elma Delea cannot get inside. She will be protesting on the fringes of the six-day biennial …

Bloomberg reports: “Discrimination against men who have sex with men must end, and countries must gear up prevention programs against AIDS in this high-risk group, the secretary general of the United Nations said yesterday.”

SCOTUS Blog reports on the latest filings at the U.S. Supreme Court in the ongoing effort to halt the Medellin execution. SCOTUS Blog reports: In asking the Court on Friday to pull back that decision, Medellin’s counsel said they were …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Members of Mexico’s National Pro-Life Committee held a protest recently outside of the offices of the United Nations in response to the organization’s continuing support for abortion in Mexico and worldwide.”

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The chief of the organ transplant program at Guadalajara’s Civil Hospital is under investigation for receiving up to one million pesos ($100,000) in a personal bank account in exchange for prioritizing transplant surgeries, according to local news reports.”

Carlos Polo, the director of the Latin American Office of the Population Research Institute, warned this week that those behind the multimedia project called “The Decency Gap” are trying to portray themselves as neutral in order to “continue ahead with the intention of misinforming people about the reality of abortion.”

Reuters reports: Mexico asked the World Court on Thursday to take urgent steps to stop imminent U.S. executions of five Mexicans on death row who were denied their rights to consular assistance. One of the five, Jose Medellin, is due …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Legislators in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States, have rejected an attempt to decriminalize abortion, according to the news agency Infonorte. The state’s Congress refused to allow the proposed measure to even enter the …

According to Provida, 6,400 abortions have been performed in Mexico since abortion’s legalization in the Federal District in April 2007. 22 women have been injured and 8 have died as a result of abortion treatments since then

Two experts in law and philosophy consulted by the Mexican daily La Joranda expressed their confidence that the country’s Supreme Court would rule against the legalization of abortion in the Mexican capital.

Two experts in law and philosophy consulted by the Mexican daily La Joranda expressed their confidence that the country’s Supreme Court would rule against the legalization of abortion in the Mexican capital.

“As the Mexico Supreme Court considers a legal challenge to a new law in Mexico City that allows abortions up to 12 weeks into pregnancy, new reports indicate a teenager has died from an abortion.”