Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is forging forward with an unwavering pro-life posture in his nation whereas the difficulty of abortion is at centerstage in america.
Giammattei, who faces ongoing opposition from a global human rights panel for his vehement pro-life stance, spoke to Breitbart Information about his views on the matter in a sit-down interview in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
“The structure of the Republic of Guatemala determines that life is protected against conception,” Giammattei mentioned. “Independently, the Christian ideas that I’ve are related to the identical.”
Abortion is against the law in Guatemala aside from when being pregnant threatens a mom’s life. Giammattei, who took workplace in January 2020, mentioned, “I swore an oath over the regulation, and I’ve to verify the regulation is revered.”
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Giammattei’s feedback come within the wake of the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturning Roe v. Wade, a historic win for the pro-life motion that returned abortion regulation to particular person U.S. states. The conservative president noticed that in america, polling signifies America is deeply divided on abortion, as some polls present a majority of Individuals favor getting access to abortion.
Giammattei mentioned, “Right here in america, they’ve an issue. It’s an issue [native to] right here. … These are issues that — what occurs right here — I don’t meddle. However what occurs over there, I do.”
“We’ve got spearheaded a motion within the area for our nation to keep away from that abortion turn into a lifestyle,” the president continued.
Previous to assembly with Breitbart Information on Tuesday, Giammattei appeared on the Group of American States (OAS) to formally protest OAS’s Interamerican Fee of Human Rights (IACHR).
Guatemala es un país soberano y democrático, por ello, en la Sesión Protocolar del Consejo Permanente de la @OEA_oficial, manifestamos enérgicamente nuestra inconformidad sobre la nota del Informe Anual 2021 de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. pic.twitter.com/DgPOYPG0t6
— Alejandro Giammattei (@DrGiammattei) June 29, 2022
IACHR, a global human rights tribunal, declared in its 2021 annual report it was “extraordinarily involved” about Guatemala’s “regressive measures” on abortion.
The report cited that Giammattei had joined the Geneva Consensus Declaration, an initiative of the Trump administration to collect international locations collectively to agree that abortion isn’t a global proper. Greater than 30 states, together with Guatemala, had joined the declaration as of final 12 months. President Joe Biden, who’s pro-abortion, introduced quickly after taking workplace that america would withdraw from the declaration.
IACHR “declared that I used to be on the extent of Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba as a human proper violator as a result of I oppose abortion, essentially the most ridiculous factor on this planet,” Giammattei mentioned, referencing three international locations run by notoriously legal regimes.
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The president pointed to Article 4 of the IACHR’s Interamerican Conference, which consists of a “proper to life” for the unborn.
“It says that life within the OAS international locations is protected against conception — identical to our structure! We can not change issues. If somebody desires abortion to be completely different, for it to be accepted in Guatemala, they’ve to vary the structure,” Giammattei mentioned.
Giammattei continued his pro-life advocacy on Wednesday by showing on the Worldwide Spiritual Freedom Summit in D.C., the place he reiterated to the viewers a remark he has made prior to now, that Guatemala is the “pro-life capital” of Latin America.
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