letter from Brazil
Lula seeks to liberalise abortion law
Miguel Uchôa Calvacanti
The new Brazilian government is moving towards increased support for abortion.
The trend became apparent when the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, represented by the Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade, withdrew Brazil from the so-called Geneva Consensus, a bloc of 32 nations that defend life from conception and the family in the conservative and traditional model, and other measures that seek to protect women’s health.