(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 …