As La Jornada reports, a mere three days after the opening of the new state legislature in Veracruz, the archdiocese of Jalapa, headed by monseñor Hipólito Reyes Larios, asks that the state deputies immediately change the state constitution to throw women who have abortions in jail.
Despite the increasing violence, drug wars, abuse of immigrants, floods, you name it, in the state of Vera Cruz, the Mexican Catholic Church's main worry is for the state legislature to arrest and throw in jail women - almost invariably poor, indigenous, and illiterate, who can't even afford or don't know about contraceptions because the church has fought against their sales as well as banning sex education - in jail.
It is at this point I am tempted to in person exhort archbishop Hipólito to simply go to hell.
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