Unfortunately, there are extremist pro-abort feminists in many more places than just American universities. Case in point: Silvia Pimentel (photo at right) is a Professor of Legal Philosophy at -- get this -- the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo. That's right; another Catholic who, in fact, isn't but whose perversity loves to sabotage the Church's teaching from the inside out. Senora Pimentel's most recent treason involves trying to destroy Nicaragua's sweeping new pro-life law.It should be no surprise that Senora Pimentel travels in the most leftist of circles. Indeed, as the Vice President of the powerful United Nations Committee for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), she is one of the most radical of the pro-abortionists working to knock down all remaining restraints to abortion.
Pimentel agitated against the Nicaraguan Congress' intention to ban abortion in their nation, using in an open letter the tired line that a "right to therapeutic abortion is inherent in human rights" and is "protected by international treaties and conventions signed by Nicaragua." Silvia Pimentel failed to dissuade the Congress and preborn children in Nicaragua will now receive something increasingly rare in the world -- protection. But, make no mistake, Senora Pimentel will not wait to strike again at this basic moral teaching of what she brazenly still insists is "her" Church.
It doesn't matter that you are not a Nicaraguan (or even if you are not a Roman Catholic), you can still write to Bishop Joaquim Justino Carreira, the Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, and ask him to, unless she repents, remove Senora Pimentel from her post at the Catholic University.
Speaking up for the sanctity of life needs recognize no boundaries.
The Bishop's address is Avenida Higienopolis 890, 01238-908 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; C.P. 1670, 01064-970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
