Chile's
health minister resigned after saying that abortion is more accessible to
people with financial means. Her words re-opened a debate in the deeply Catholic
country, where the practice is banned.
"I do
not regret the things I said," Chile's former Health Minister Helia Molina
told the Canal 13 television station on December 30.
The
reference was to a recent interview with the Chilean daily "La
Segunda" on abortion, during which she made clear that her country's
blanket ban on the practice did not affect each Chilean equally.
"In
all upper-class clinics, many conservative families have had their daughters
abort," the then-minister said, adding, "People with money do not
need laws, because they have the resources."
The
government of Chile's Socialist President Michelle Bachelet reacted promptly to
the critique, announcing Molina's resignation last week.
Though the
Health Ministry later issued a statement saying Molina's declaration
represented her "personal opinion" but not the government's, the
government's secretary general, Alvaro Elizalde, confirmed Molina's resignation
and said Bachelet had accepted it, adding that the president thanked the
67-year-old for her role at the head of the ministry.
In the
headlines again
Across the
Chilean political spectrum, the minister's interview and resignation provoked
wide-ranging reactions.
According
to the opposition conservative PC party, Molina's words were "extremely
grave." Meanwhile, Chilean Senator Felipe Harboe of Molina's center-left
PPD party said in an interview with Chilean daily "La Tercera" that
the former minister was giving voice to "a reality."
Javier
Macaya of the right-wing conservative UDI party accused Molina and the current
government coalition of center, center-left and left parties of "dividing
Chileans" on social issues. Guillermo Teillier, head of the country's
minority communist party, criticized "certain protocols that prohibit
ministers from being able to say things with a clear voice."
Plans for
partial legalization
Bachelet, a
physician who once headed the Health Ministry herself, had announced plans last
year to decriminalize "therapeutic abortion" in three specific circumstances:
in cases of rape, if the fetus is unlikely to survive outside the uterus, or if
the life of the mother is at risk.
Chile
permitted abortion if the mother's life was in danger or the fetus was unviable
until 1989.Then in one of his final acts, dictator Augusto Pinochet outlawed
abortion in all cases.
While the
Chilean president's plans have yet to be made concrete, the former health
minister's comments reopened a debate on abortion in Chile, which is regarded
as having among the strictest set of abortion laws in South America. Abortion
is currently banned in all cases and has been a punishable offense since 1989.
According to official figures, however, there are tens of thousands of illegal
abortions every year.
According
to information from the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, 68
countries, representing 25.5 percent of the world's population, either prohibit
abortion to save a woman's life or ban it altogether as of 2014.
Since 1998,
the Center for Reproductive Rights has produced "The World's Abortion
Laws" map to "visually compare the legal status of induced abortion
in different countries."
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Question: Dear Kryon, thank you for the many communications you have given. They have been enlightening in many ways. I hope this is not a rude question, but it is a subject that I have not seen addressed in the collection of Questions and Answers. I want to know: What is the morality of stopping someone's new life in the physical plane, by abortion? And what is the karma to the person who helps to accomplish an abortion? I think it will depend on when a Human life begins. When life begins is a moment that is very important to those who oppose abortion and those who say it is allowable.
Do you have a decisive response to guide those who receive your words?
Answer: [from Lee Carroll] We have tried to "paint" Kryon into a corner on this many times, since it really is an important issue in our society. Kryon says this: "Human life actually begins when the intent of the entities involved in the planning session is to create it." It's not a biological answer, and it won't please either side.
This places it far before any kind of biological morality decision. Kryon has said that there is no judgement in the choice of Humans... including this one. When it occurs, there is also no horrible karmic payback. But there IS energy created that affects everyone around the event. Sometimes these lives come and go to create lessons for those involved, then these terminated lives return almost immediately, often within the next pregnancy (sometimes changing gender). If there is no next pregnancy, often it's in a very close family group.
God is not in a vacuum concerning these things, and often they are set-ups, and are executed with the agreement of all parties in advance. This is far different than our society wishes to believe. They want to paint a black and white answer to when life occurs, and set rules on what you can and cannot do with it. Instead, Kryon's answer gives honor and validity to the fact that you are not here by accident, and the things that take place in your lives are not random. Not to mention the fact that your free choice is the free choice of God (since you are a piece of God).
So we leave the biological cultural decisions for those who wish to make them, but we have heard the spiritual answers many times... that these things are far more than they appear, and are all part of our spiritual setups, and they are honored.
God is not in a vacuum concerning these things, and often they are set-ups, and are executed with the agreement of all parties in advance. This is far different than our society wishes to believe. They want to paint a black and white answer to when life occurs, and set rules on what you can and cannot do with it. Instead, Kryon's answer gives honor and validity to the fact that you are not here by accident, and the things that take place in your lives are not random. Not to mention the fact that your free choice is the free choice of God (since you are a piece of God).
So we leave the biological cultural decisions for those who wish to make them, but we have heard the spiritual answers many times... that these things are far more than they appear, and are all part of our spiritual setups, and they are honored.
"Recalibration of Knowledge" – Jan 14, 2012 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: Channelling, God-Creator, Benevolent Design, New Energy, Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Reincarnation, Gaia, Old Energies (Africa,Terrorists, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela ... ), Weather, Rejuvenation, Akash, Nicolas Tesla / Einstein, Cold Fusion, Magnetics, Lemuria, Atomic Structure (Electrons, Particles, Polarity, Self Balancing, Magnetism, Higgs Boson), Entanglement, "Life is necessary for a Universe to exist and not the other way around", DNA, Humans (Baby getting ready, First Breath, Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, Rejuvenation), Global Unity, ... etc.) - (Text Version)
"... I want to define life for you - not biological life, but spiritual life. So for all those intellectuals, just hold on, for many won't like this. Spiritual life, as measured by Spirit, is when a Human has free choice. When is that? It's when they take their first breath. Not in utero. There will be those who will say, "That's wrong, that's wrong. The soul in the woman's body is alive!" Just wait. I'm talking about spiritually. That which Spirit sees, and it's when you come from the other side of the veil and take your first breath.
A child with the mother has no free choice. That child is linked to the choice of the mother until it is born. It is, indeed, a soul in preparation for free choice, and there are many attributes that are spiritual that we have discussed before about how that soul reacts. But now I'm discussing life with polarity [duality], free choice.
But let's discuss that "child inside" for a moment, for there is a process I want you to know about. I want to talk about 240 days into the pregnancy. At about that time, the child has perfect DNA. It hasn't taken its first breath. The DNA hasn't measured the energy of the planet yet, since it is contained. Did you realize that? Inside the womb is a perfect child. The child's DNA has all the attributes of the Akash and also the parent, but it's different in a way you have not been told. The DNA is 100% as designed.
The quantum instructions within the DNA are all talking to the biology of the child,, getting ready for the first breath. ..."
"THE THREE WINDS" – Feb 23-24, 2013 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Humanity, Home - other side of the veil, Wind of Birth - Birth, Wind of Existence - Life, Wind of Transition - Death) - (Text version)
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