Morning-after pill use enrages Mexican bishops
Church officials argue that this is a method of abortion, not contraception. “Stopping an egg attach to the womb is clearly abortion. It kills a newly conceived human being, the most innocent of lives,” Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar, head of the Mexican Bishops Conference’s Family Committee said in his statement.
bq.. MEXICO CITY —Mexico’s Roman Catholic bishops have expressed outrage over the Fox administration’s decision to hand out the controversial “morning-after pill” at government-run family planning clinics.
In a series of statements this week, the bishops said the pill is a method of abortion comparable to murder. Some said women who use the pill are effectively excommunicating themselves from the church.
_”Contraception and abortion are both products of an anti-life mentality, which comes from the culture of death,” Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar, head of the Mexican Bishops Conference’s Family Committee, said in a statement._
The morning-after pill has been available in Mexican pharmacies since 1999. But it only became officially sanctioned by the federal Department of Health last week when the government issued new family planning guidelines.
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