Puerto Rico’s Natural Law Compromise: Secularism Masquerading as Pro-Life Victory
CatholicNewsAgency.com reports Puerto Rico’s enactment of three laws ostensibly protecting unborn life: Law 183-2025 recognizing “the human being in gestation” as a natural person, Law 166-2025 classifying fetal death during maternal assault as first-degree murder, and Law 122-2025 requiring parental consent for abortions on minors. Governor Jenniffer González and Senators Thomas Rivera-Schatz and Joanne Rodríguez-Veve are credited as architects of this legislation, hailed as “unprecedented progress” after “more than four decades” of abortion permissiveness. The article concludes with a quote from antipope John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio, presenting this legal framework as compatible with Christian values.
Theological Bankruptcy of Conditional Personhood
The central deceit lies in Law 183’s limitation of personhood to “the mother’s womb,” contradicting the Church’s perennial teaching that life begins at conception. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 747) and Pope Pius XII’s Address to Midwives (1951) affirm life’s sacredness from fertilization. By restricting legal protection to gestational stages, Puerto Rico’s law implicitly condones abortifacients and embryonic destruction – a modernist corruption echoing the 1965 Gaudium et Spes equivocations rejected by traditional theology.
“The message is clear: In the womb of a pregnant woman there is not an indecipherable object without dignity but a subject… whose value is intrinsic to his or her human nature” (Rodríguez-Veve)
This statement embodies naturalistic heresy by reducing human dignity to biological development rather than recognizing the immortal soul infused at conception (Declaration on Procured Abortion, CDF 1974, repeating earlier doctrine). Senator Rodríguez-Veve’s claim that “no article alters… life-threatening situations” reveals the law’s fatal compromise: exception clauses permitting abortion under “health” pretexts, condemned by Pope Pius XI as “that infamous liberty” (Casti Connubii, 1930).
Post-Conciliar Poison in “Pro-Life” Legislation
The article’s reference to “the now-obsolete U.S. Supreme Court precedent” of Roe v. Wade exposes its conciliar mindset. True Catholic doctrine holds civil authorities must always prohibit abortion, regardless of secular legal frameworks. Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the proposition that “human laws can be divorced from divine law” (Proposition 56). Governor González’s Republican affiliation is irrelevant – all civil rulers owe public submission to Christ the King, as Pope Pius XI declared: “Nations will be happy and peaceful only when they accept God’s law” (Quas Primas, 1925).
Law 122’s parental consent requirement constitutes modernist deception. The Church prohibits abortion in所有 cases, whereas this statute regulates rather than abolishes child murder. It echoes the conciliar sect’s obsession with procedural solutions to intrinsic evils – a betrayal of St. Thomas Aquinas’ principle that “no circumstance can make an intrinsically evil action good” (Summa Theologica II-II Q64 A6).
Sacrilegious Citation of Apostate Authorities
The article’s concluding reference to antipope John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio constitutes spiritual sabotage. This 1981 document emerged from the Vatican II sect that abandoned extra ecclesiam nulla salus and embraced religious liberty – heresies condemned by Pope Pius IX (Syllabus, Proposition 15) and Pope Pius X (Lamentabili Sane, 1907). Senator Rivera-Schatz’s invocation of this antipapal text reveals the laws’ theological emptiness: a post-conciliar “pro-life” facade masking surrender to secular humanism.
Omission of Supernatural Realities
Nowhere do Puerto Rico’s legislators acknowledge the eternal consequences of abortion or demand public reparation for this national sin. Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s call for “penitential expiation” against abortion (Casti Connubii). The laws focus exclusively on temporal punishments (murder charges) while ignoring the spiritual infanticide occurring through sacramental deprivation. As the Council of Trent decreed, children dying without baptism enter Limbo (Decretum de peccato originali, 1546) – a fate infinitely worse than physical death.
Satanic Distraction Through Transgender Legislation
Rodríguez-Veve boasts about Law 63-2025 banning transgender surgeries for minors as “another colossal achievement.” This tactical concession mimics conciliar sect strategies: appease conservatives with peripheral victories while maintaining core errors. Pope Leo XIII warned against such compromises: “The holding of one truth and rejection of another is tantamount to denying all” (Satis Cognitum, 1896). When Puerto Rico simultaneously upholds abortion exceptions and attacks gender ideology, it practices the heresy of compartmentalization – pretending moral issues can be addressed discretely rather than through integral submission to Christ’s Social Reign.
Until Puerto Rican legislators demand:
- Total abortion prohibition without exception
- Public recognition of Christ as King
- Restoration of Catholicism as state religion
Their “pro-life” laws remain satanic diversions – temporal regulations divorced from the lex divina, as condemned in Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 39). The miracle-less “progress” celebrated here constitutes not victory but strategic retreat in the Church Militant’s war against modernity.
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UPDATE: Puerto Rico enacts law recognizing legal personhood of the unborn child (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.01.2026