Lemaitre, Julieta --- "Modes of disestablishment in Latin America" [2017] ELECD 909; in Dixon, Rosalind; Ginsburg, Tom (eds), "Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 198

Book Title: Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America

Editor(s): Dixon, Rosalind; Ginsburg, Tom

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785369209

Section: Chapter 9

Section Title: Modes of disestablishment in Latin America

Author(s): Lemaitre, Julieta

Number of pages: 29

Abstract/Description:

A quick review of the news coverage in Latin America in two months of 2014, April and May, shows Catholic clergy opposing civil unions between same-sex couples in Peru (La República 2014); rallying against legal abortion in cases of rape in war in Colombia (RCN 2014); actively supporting an amendment of the Constitution of the state of Nuevo Le—n in Mexico to include the right to life from conception (Milenio 2014); campaigning against the legalization of civil unions for same-sex couples in the state of Veracruz in Mexico (Cancino 2014) and testifying against the emergency contraceptive pill before Congress in Honduras, claiming it is a form of abortion (La Prensa 2014). And yet May and April 2014 were not particularly active months for the Catholic Church, but rather a representative sample of its persistent activism against sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America, before and after the anointment of the Latin American Pope, Francis. Keywords: Catholic Church, disestablishment, sexual and reproductive rights, church–state relations, freedom of religion