On May 17, thousands of Colombians will take to the streets to demand that the sentences of the Constitutional Court that have caused about 200,000 deaths with abortion be annulled, and for the government to act against other practices that are damaging the human dignity of the population.
The mobilizations will be part of the 19th National March for Life that will take place in “Hundreds of Cities”, according to United for Life, the citizen platform that summons these mass concentrations.
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On your website, United for life has confirmed That there will be marches in Bogotá, Buenaventura, Cali, Cartagena, Chiquinquirá, Cúcuta, Manizales, Medellín, Melgar, Montería, Ocaña, Pasto, Pereira, Tunja, Villavicencio, among others.
In a statement shared with ACI Prensa, united by life indicates that the main demands of the march are the cancellation of sentences C-355 from 2006 y C-055 from 2022 of the Constitutional Court “that decriminalized abortion and have generated only in the last 3 years, around 200,000 deaths of babies to be born.”
It indicates that these figures have been taken “from the reports of the same Profamilia and Orientame, two of the organizations that lead the abortion industry” in Colombia.
Likewise, “to demand that the Ministry of Health suspend euthanasia, especially in minors,” because “the solution to life problems will never be induced death.”
Euthanasia was decriminalized by the Constitutional Court in 1997 and in 2017 extended it to minorsordering the Ministry of Health that regulate your practice.
Another demand for mobilizations is “to demand the protection of our children and young people from hormonal treatments and sex change therapies that are destroying in the world the lives of thousands of children and young people.”
Likewise, the Colombian government will be asked to take “forceful actions to stop the recruitment of minors by armed criminal groups, and other forms of violence against our children and adolescents”, such as “sex tourism” that exploits minors.
According to the United States, Gustavo Petro government will also be required to establish clear policies to prevent suicide attempts, avoid the “destruction” of the health system and reverse the low birth rate that is “caused, among other factors, by abortion.”
“If urgent actions are no longer carried out, in a few years Colombia will disappear because there will be no generational renewal, the productive force will decrease and the pressure on social services (especially health) will be unsustainable,” he says.
“It’s time to defend life with passion by all Colombians. We are at a critical moment and circumstances do not wait,” says United for life.
Eduardo Berdejo
Professional in Social Communication of the National University of San Marcos in Peru, I have more than 20 years of experience in Catholic digital journalism. As part of ACI Press, I have been sent to cover the trips of Pope Francis to Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, in addition to the Synod of Sinodality in the Vatican in 2023.