The Conference of the Dominican Episcopate (CED) expressed its “deep concern” at the state of the ruling in which the Constitutional Court left 21 direct actions of unconstitutionality, including one against several articles of the Law 74-25 that institutes the new Penal Code and seeks the decriminalization of abortion.
According to his opinion, and reflected in a statement, the actions that are being carried out in the judicial body seek to ignore the fundamental rights of life and family that are established in the Constitution of the Republic.
“The attacks on these rights, as is known, have been launched for decades, and on all occasions, both the constituent and ordinary legislators, interpreting the permanent values and interests of the Dominican people, have rejected them in a sustained manner, recognizing the innate dignity of the human life from conception, and the importance of preserving the family as the foundation of the nation,” can be read in the writing.
In the national territory, the Constitution establishes as a fully penalized crime the abortion under no exception, including three causesby maintaining that the right to life It is inviolable from conception, provoking extensive debate around this practice.
On June 17, the Constitutional Court reserved its ruling on a direct action of unconstitutionality promoted by citizen Rosa Herminia Hernández, the Dominican Christian Alliance association (ACD) and the organization Catholics for the Right to Decide of the Dominican Republic (CDDRD).
“Pretending that the Constitutional Court disrespect or subvert with an interpretative ruling the Constitution, of which they are the supreme guarantor, constitutes a bold and high-risk action against the constitutional and institutional order, especially when it is based on ideological visions loaded with relativism and driven by transhumanism,” the Episcopate Conference states in its statement.
They reminded the entity that Dominican Republic It is part of the few nations in the world that do not belong to the “own cultures of death” to search for what they classify as “false sense of human progress or, what is even worse, of freedoms and rights.” women’s rights”.
In that sense, they appreciated that the Public Ministry and both chambers of the National Congress They rejected before the Court the claims of several organizations and people to ignore what was imposed by the Constitution.
“We welcome that the Public Ministry and both chambers of the National Congress have rejected before the Constitutional Court the claims of various organizations and people, with the support of international entities, to ignore the rights set forth in the Constitution, which, furthermore, by their very nature, are the foundation of all other rights and freedoms,” they expressed.
They concluded the document by also valuing the “timely and responsible” action of intervention, before the Court, of the movements and citizens Pro-life and Defenders of the Family, Catholics, Evangelicals, as well as the exercise of Dominican values.
