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.