Various civil society organizations denounced that the Government of the Mexican State of Guanajuato, in collaboration with the Las Libres feminist collective, would be trying to introduce abortion in the entity through a sexual education program that is implemented in a pilot way in basic level schools.
The National Front for the Family (FNF), Christian lawyers, the National Union of Parents (UNPF) and Red Familia, among other groups, expressed their rejection of the educational strategy called “Sexual Education for decision making”, which will begin to apply with a pilot in educational schools of the municipalities of Silao and Romita.
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According to him Free websitethis local organization provides “accompaniment to women and girls for access to free and safe abortions”, and makes “legislative incidence and research on abortion and feminicide issues”.
Governor denies that there is “an abortion issue”
Given the accusations, Governor Libya Dennise García Muñoz Ledo, a member of the National Action Party (PAN), publicly replied on July 22, ensuring that “at no time is there an abortion issue” in the program.
“I am a person who believes in life, in the right we also have to life, but it is also very important not to stigmatize sex education,” he said, according to the Local Media El Universal.
According to García Muñoz Ledo we seek to “address the realities that are presented today in the youth and this program we are driving is a program that has to do with the decision -making of responsible for youth and the life project.”
Although he acknowledged that the free participate, he indicated that what the project raises is to speak to young people about “life project, violence in courtship, of decisions even for their future as the career they are going to choose, to remain in school (0:45) and of course sex education” under the authorization of parents.
They accuse that “abortion ideologies” are promoted
Network warned In a statement on July 27, that the content of the program can “incite the minors to begin an active sex life at their young age.”
Mario Romo, national director of Red Familia, said that the content covers issues such as integral education in sexuality, gender perspective, intersectionality, non -discrimination, inequality and progressivism.
According to the position of the Profamilia leader, these axes “aim to promote abortion ideologies in minors, who have sex with whom they want, cause confusion in their sexual identity and the most alarming, opens the door for children’s sexual abuses to comment.”
The leader urged to be careful with concepts such as “conscious decision making”, since, he said, they are the “umbrella to put the false rights of reproduction and sexuality, which the only thing they promote is that abortion can be made as a decision, an unpublished exit without notifying parents.”
Mario Romo reproached that Nucna consulted parents or specialists, and “the result is a sexual education program biased to the interests of groups that promote abortion.”
They demand sex education with family perspective
For his part, Rodrigo Iván Cortés, president of the FNF, clarified that they do not oppose youth sex education, but demanded “that it be done in an open way, consulting society, with a family perspective and not only delivering education at abortion and geneistic instances”.
Through a statementthe president of the FNF accused this July 28 that State Government is doing is financing programs that “promotes is abortion and the ideology of gender confusion” two currents that, he said, “twist a healthy perception of human dignity and its sexuality.”
He also recalled that on June 5 the State Congress rejected the decriminalization of abortion. Therefore, he described as “deep folly” that the authorities seek “to turn their backs on society, trying to put the promotion of abortion crime in the children’s classrooms through the back door.”
“Children do not deserve to live an childhood with pro -abortion indoctrination that aims to desensitize them of the value of human life from their most tender age,” said Cortés, reiterating their rejection that public resources are used to finance “a corrupt sex education plan against the will of parents, the main taxpayers of the State.”
The National Family Union (UNPF) also issued a positioning on July 24 in which he expresses his concern about the program. They argue that “far from providing solutions to the problem of pregnancy in adolescents and young people, they will aggravate it, as seen in other places and in other times.”
Diego López Colín
I am a graduate of journalism at the Carlos Septién García school with experience of religious institutional communication. Since 2016 I write for digital media and, since 2018, I report the most important news about the Catholic event in Mexico for the Ewtn news channel. ACI Press correspondent in Mexico since 2023.