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Lula seeks to liberalise abortion law

Miguel Uchôa Calvacanti  |  World
Date posted:  1 May 2023
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Lula seeks to liberalise abortion law

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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.

On the day of her inauguration, 2 January, Trindade announced that ‘the ordinances and technical notes that offend science, human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, and that have transformed several positions of the Ministry of Health into a conservative and science-denying agenda’ would be revoked. It is important to note that the expression ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ is used by proponents of abortion practice.

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