Fri Oct 15, 2021 – 10:07 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) – Guatemala joined the international, pro-life, pro-women’s health, and pro-family Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD) on Tuesday, an initiative of the Trump administration from which Biden withdrew the United States soon after taking office.
The declaration, which was formed in opposition to international pressure to accept abortion as a “human right” and a key part of women’s health, was given a ringing endorsement by Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei in a speech celebrating his country’s participation.
Guatemala’s adoption of the declaration, he said, “is a clear message to the international community that there are many countries that recognize that there is a fundamental right, a human right, to life that must be guaranteed and defended.”
“[A]ny approach that there is already a consensus in favor of abortion at the international level, as some sadly allege, it is totally false,” Giammattei continued. “Any effort to try to impose abortion on a country is undue interference in its internal affairs.”
He went on, “I must point out that these efforts to promote abortion are often made in the
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