Timor diz que não!

O parlamento de Timor Leste recusou a pressão de agências das Nações Unidas e de ONG's Pró-Aborto para reverem a legislação actual.

Feisty Timor Leste Bucks Abortion Lobby, Upholds Right to Life

By Piero A. Tozzi

(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The parliament of East Timor – a small, Catholic nation in South East Asia recognized as an independent state in 2002 – has resisted concerted pressure from United Nations agencies and pro-abortion non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by enacting a revised penal law that continues to criminalize abortion in virtually all cases. With last week's 45 to 0 vote with only 7 abstentions on the main operative paragraph, parliament retained penal sanctions on abortion, except in instances where abortion is the "only way" to prevent death to the mother as attested to by three independent physicians. A preambular paragraph states that life "from the moment of conception" is entitled to protection.