Rodrigo Maia is the president of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies.
November 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A special commission of Brazil’s lower legislative house has approved a constitutional amendment that would protect the right to life from conception by an overwhelming margin that analysts say will be difficult to overcome.
The Special Commission of the Chamber of Deputies voted last Wednesday to recognize the “dignity of the human person from his conception,” adding the language to a constitutional amendment that would extend paid maternity leave to women who give birth prematurely.
The amendment was approved by a 19-1 vote, making it unlikely that the legislation will be modified before passing to the full Chamber of Deputies for a vote.
“It is appropriate to note that if we protect, in a just manner, those who were already living and have prematurely left the womb, granting an extension of maternal leave to their mothers, we cannot fail to explicitly establish, even more, their protection in the uterus, from their beginning, that is from conception,” said the legislator who authored the pro-life language, Jorge Tadeu Mudalen.
The measure comes in response to a recent decision by a subdivision of Brazil’s
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