On 31 July 2025, the Dominican Republic’s Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly approved a new Penal Code, followed by Senate endorsement and President Luis Abinader’s signature on 3 August. The law, set to take effect in August 2026, modernises criminal justice by introducing penalties for femicide, cybercrime, and economic violence. However, it upholds the nation’s total ban on abortion, reaffirmed by Article 37 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to life from conception to natural death.
Despite strong international lobbying for liberalisation, Dominican lawmakers defended the measure as aligned with the country’s cultural values, Catholic heritage, and constitutional principles. The new code replaces the 1884 version, while the 1954 Concordat with the Holy See remains in force, underscoring the Dominican Republic’s longstanding religious and legal commitment to protecting life.

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Dominican Republic resists global pressure, upholds unborn’s right to life

On 31 July 2025, the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Congress of the Dominican Republic, voted 159 to 4 in favour of a new Penal Code. The vote was followed the next day by near-unanimous approval in the Senate. President Luis Abinader signed the law on 3 August, with the code scheduled to come into effect in August 2026.
The measure modernises the penal system, introducing penalties for femicide, cybercrime, and economic violence, but leaves unchanged the nation’s uncompromising stance on abortion. Article 37 of the Constitution declares that “the right to life is inviolable from conception until death.”
“This fight [for the unborn] has lasted decades,” said attorney Loren Montalvo of Alliance Defending Freedom in Santo Domingo, quoted by
International pressure has been intense. More than 20 organisations, backed by networks such as the Latin American Consortium Against Unsafe Abortion (CLACAI) and global groups including the International Planned Parenthood Federation,…

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Yellow nothing to see here

Canada: Report point to 15,343 euthanasia deaths in 2023. 241 for dementia. No such thing as “limited euthanasia” or “a little euthanasia only in severe causes”.

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Is it done by injection?

The victory in the Dominican Republic reminds us that, however powerful the forces arrayed against us, pro-lifers can win these battles.

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Total abortion ban reaffirmed in Dominican Republic - LifeSite

(LifeSiteNews) — For decades, the Dominican Republic, where abortion has been banned since 1884, has been under tremendous pressure from international abortion networks and the feminist movement to decriminalize abortion and allow it under some circumstance.
But despite these well-funded groups and their well-organized campaigns, which had the support of the country’s major media, the people of this Caribbean country, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, have always said no.
On July 31, 2025, speaking through their elected representatives in the Congress of the Dominican Republic, they did so again.
In their latest legislative attack on life, the abortion movement tried to use the passage of the DR’s new Penal Code – known in Spanish as
But when the amendment was introduced in Chamber of Deputies (equivalent to U.S. House of Representatives), it was overwhelmingly defeated on a vote of 159 to 4.
The Chamber of Deputies, after a final 14-hour session on July 30, 2025, went …

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God's grace, mercy and favor to the Dominican Republic for a thousand generations.

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Archbishop sounds alarm on India's abortion crisis: 'Every two seconds a baby is killed' - LifeSite

(LifeSiteNews) — India’s Fourth National March for Life was held in Bangalore on August 9, drawing thousands of participants from across the country. Archbishop Francis Kalist, episcopal advisor to CHARIS India and the CBCI-appointed in-charge for the pro-life movement in India, delivered a powerful catechesis to bishops, priests, religious and laity.
Archbishop Kalist highlighted the staggeringly high rate of abortion in India. Referring to a Lancet study that recorded 15.6 million abortions in India in the year 2015 alone, he lamented the “tragedy of abortion” that results in a baby being killed every two seconds in India. In these last ten years, the abortion law has been expanded to permit killing up to 24 weeks for any reason, while courts have increasingly authorized late-term abortions.
Quoting Pope Leo XIV, he encouraged priests and laity to become “fishers of families” and reveal the truth about abortion, contraception and gender ideology instead of observing silence because …

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Euthanasia rose 37% in New Zealand, and leftist politicians are pushing for more

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Assisted deaths increase by 37% in New Zealand

Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
The most
recent reportthat was released by the New Zealand Assisted Dying Service (April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025) indicated that there were 472 assisted deaths (up from 344 in the previous year), and there 1137 active cases (up from 945 in the previous year).
New Zealand legalized both euthanasia and assisted suicide. The report stated:
For the 472 assisted deaths that took place between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025:• 17 people chose ingestion, triggered by the person,• 5 people chose intravenous delivery, triggered by the person,• 9 people chose ingestion through a tube, triggered by the AMP or ANP• 441 people chose injection, administered by the AMP/ANP.
Therefore 441 out of 472 were euthanasia and 31 were assisted suicide deaths. Similar to Canada, euthanasia has become the primary way to die by assisted death.
It is important to note that:
21% of the applicants were not receiving palliative care and,12% of the …

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Warum beginnen die linken Politiker nicht bei sich selber?

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“Buffer zones” are where freedom of thought and expression go to die. Prayer is not a crime.

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce Faces Third Police Investigation for SILENT Prayer

The English police are investigating Isabel Vaughan-Spruce for a third time and have asked prosecutors whether there is enough evidence to charge her, reports the Telegraph (9 August).
Ms Vaughan-Spruce has already received a payout and an apology from the police after being arrested twice for silently praying (in November 2022 and March 2023).
In October 2024, a new law came into effect making it an offence to do anything within a 'buffer zone' that intentionally influences a mother's decision to abort an unborn baby.
Ms Vaughan-Spruce has continued to pray silently outside the abortion clinic every week, insisting that her actions do not breach the new law.
Earlier this year, she lodged a formal complaint stating that she was still subjected to regular harassment by police officers.
However, she later received a letter from the Department for Professional Standards stating that they could not deal with the complaint as she was the subject of an ongoing investigation.
Ms Vaughan-Spruce …More

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Joan from Red Rose Rescue is out of jail!! 🙏🏽 👣 🌹
She was bailed out yesterday. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for August 14th.

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Every past civilization honored the woman who built the next generation. Ours honors the woman who destroy the next.

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Marxism started the women's lib movement, and this has tried to destroy western civilization. Look at the commercials on TV which portray men as morons, and women as leaders. This is not from God, but from hell.

Same person

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Germany: Bishop Bätzing defines abortion as an “intelligent balance”.

President of German Bishops Defends Extremist Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf as Constitutional Judge

The president of the German Bishops, Monsignor Georg Bätzing of Limburg, has DEFENDED the radical lawyer Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, who was nominated by the Socialists as a constitutional judge: “This woman does not deserve to be damaged like this,” Bishop Bätzing told Augsburger-Allgemeine.de (July 16).
Brosius-Gersdorf was to be elected on July 11 as a constitutional judge (12-year term). However, the parliamentary vote was postponed after it became clear that Brosius-Gersdorf would struggle to gain the two-thirds majority necessary for confirmation.
The days before, there was a big outcry over her extremist views.
In her opinion, the crime of abortion should not be considered a crime anymore and be paid for by health insurance companies. She even stated that there were “good reasons why the guarantee of human dignity should only apply from birth.”
Brosius-Gersdor is a representative of extremist-left positions. In 2021, she argued that a duty to “vaccinate” against coronavirus could …More

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Malki Tzedek

Indefensible.

Chemical Abortion Pills cause serious issues for over 1 in 10 women who take them. These drugs endanger moms, kill thousands of babies, and are easy for abusers to get a hold of. Enough is enough—no more Chemical Abortion.

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When human life begins

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To say this baby is not human is inhumane.

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@HerzMariae...Thank you and God Bless you.

This is a human being 8 weeks after fertilization, 10 weeks LMP.

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This will never be “healthcare.”

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Das Werk Satans - Beten, beten, beten 🙏

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Monstrous!!!!…..😭😭😭😭😭😭😭