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250,000 unborn children killed in Sri Lanka every year
View(s):Today has been declared as the day of the Unborn Child and all religions will come together in a joint campaign to prevent any attempt to legalize abortion in Sri Lanka.
According to investigations, at least 700 illegal abortions take place every day, meaning more than 20,000 a month and a horrifying 250,000 every year, making it a massacre of the innocents and a crime against humanity.
At the Naga Vihare in Kotte, the Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Nayake Thera presided over a meeting for all religions to come together to curb or stop this crime against defenceless and voiceless children. The meeting was attended by Colombo’s Episcopal Vicar Rev. Fr. Ivan Perera, the head of the Family Apostolate Rev. Fr. Julian Patrick, the lay leaders of the Kithu Dana Pubduwa (Catholic Revival Movement), representatives of the Inter Church fellowship (I CF) and others.
The Ven. Sobitha Nayaka Thera who heads the National Movement for Social Justice, said his movement would play a co-coordinating role in bringing all religious leaders and communities together in the campaign to bring about public awareness of the terrifying horrors of abortion and prevent moves to legalise it even in a limited way
The initiative for this campaign against abortion was taken by Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, following reports that some sections of the Government, were promoting legislation to legalise abortion in a limited way.
The Cardinal has directed hundreds of churches in the Archdiocese which covers the entire Western Province, to focus today’s Sunday Masses on the issue of abortion to bring about more awareness among the people and pray for the protection of the unborn child.
At the Kotte Vihare meeting, the Ven. Sobitha Nayake Thera proposed that all four religions should take steps to help teenage girls who become pregnant after being raped and as a result are socially killed to the stigma of rejection by their families, neighborhood and society. He said that there should be a movement to take care of these teenage girls, and then take care of the child so that victims of rape and sometimes incest could go back to society and begin normal life.
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