Puerto Rico’s Gesture Toward Life: A Hollow Victory in the Shadow of Modernist Compromise
EWTN News reports Puerto Rico’s enactment of Law 183-2025 recognizing unborn children as “natural persons,” Law 166-2025 classifying fetal deaths during attacks on pregnant women as first-degree murder, and Law 122-2025 requiring parental consent for abortions involving minors under 15. Senate President Thomas Rivera-Schatz and Sen. Joanne Rodríguez-Veve champion these measures as historic pro-life achievements grounded in Christian values, while Law 63-2025 prohibits surgical or chemical “gender transitions” for those under 21. The legislators invoke Puerto Rico’s Christian heritage and quote John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio, presenting these laws as restoring constitutional protections for life “from conception.” Yet this theatrical defense of life remains shackled to the very anti-Christian premises it claims to oppose.