Sounds like Torquemada the inquisior general at the time of the inquisition.
Statements like that just infuriates people more against the out of sync, and outdated catholic church.
The cardinal is just repeating outdated vatican policy, which like the refusal to allow priests to marry, just stimulates more flight of believers to the other, more tolerant churches.

Thankfully we have a catholic church that adopts all the millions of poor unwanted children. That's why the DR has 0 homeless limpiabotas. How compassionate the church is :-)

We don't accept abortions, but we gladly accept the 2 million+ pesos Mr.Radhames Segura made to the Episcopado Dominicano as proof of his undenialble faith.

Overpopulation, here we come!.

We don't accept abortion. And we don't care if some 9 year old gets raped by a relative and will probably die in childbirth for twins. After all, how much money could she have donated?

But we sure love those funny hats.

My ex-girlfriend, which is in the Dominican Republic, has had at least two abortions.

I do not know why the Cardinal needs to restate the position of his church ,,everyone knows it already but why does he seek to prevent legal abortion by those women who are not of his faith, do not go to his church and do not care what his views are .

When have you ever seen this man comforting any poor person or any victim of a natural disaster, such as flood or Hurricane?

He is a royal hypocrite and a welfare queen; no sexual innuendo intended but you can draw your own conclusion.

Any of these figures saying abortion should stay illegla should have their daughers raped by mental paitents until they are pregnant. Then lets see how many of them allow their daughters to give birth to children who are doomed before being born. Let people make their own choices with their own bodies. People make mistaked when they are young and should be able to correct them if they choose to just like the rest of the civilized world.

Maybe the good cardinal can donate his salary for a good cause... like raising parentless children

Thank you Cardinal, that is the law of the country and the rule of the church remember; ..."Life is sexually transmitted; AND, Life is like a jar of Jalapeno peppers. What you do today, might Burn Your Tomorrow".

It is time to dethrone and remove the church's influence on Dominican society. There are 19.6 million people on the island (10 E6 in DR and 9.6 E6 in Haiti). We are growing at 1.9 % in DR and 2.8 % in Haiti every year. That is > 900,000 new people on the island every year!

We are running out of potable water, of room for garbage, of soil for wealth production (or raising clattle), and human violence will explode!

THIS MAN IS INSANE! THE MEDIA MUST STOP GIVING THIS ANIMAL A MICROPHONE!

Bring in the Chinese system. You give birth without official approval, you go presa. And so does the Papi Champu that did it to you.

The Chinese set forth those rules when their population reached 1,000,000,000.

What will be the magic figure?

Excellent posts... let me add by only saying the hypocrisy of this charlatan. We support "human life", but we're against the human rights of women, minorities, migrants, etc.

What is a man doing telling women what to do? Women know what's best for them, and that's why it irks me to see this hypocrite and all the other politicos assuming they know best and imposing their morality and their views on women. Shame on them. I just wish some histotically marginalized group can rise up and impose on the freedom of these yahoos!!!

I agree with most others here. Who IS this guy to be making rules for everyone??
But the thing that really comes across is his VACANT eyes.
Zoom the pic ... empty, vacant, cold eyes. Eyes are the window to the soul...hmmm....

Those pedophiles won't like abortion because the little boys they prey upon won't need one after they tear their ass up.
I think the Church is preying on people stupidity. Anyway who can blame them? Hasn't they managed to sneak into our mind and culture, roman, barbarians pagan rituals and customs that have nothing to do with the real God.
They managed with brute force to convert a good chunk of mankind into sun worshippers while making the people believing that they are adoring God.
If you don't believe what I said, ask any catholic priest whether or not Jesus died on a cross or on a post. In fact, the romans never crucify their prisoners the pinned them on a post, which gives a more painful death. the cross is a pagan representation of the zodiacal solar calendar, and the fish theme that has always represented the christian faith is just a pagan symbol pulled from the solar calendar.

For all its crimes past and presents, the Catholic Church should be burnt and destroyed, and all the sons of God shoud worship Him truely and spiritually and not be forced to believe in childish, counterfeited and distorted stories edited and published by an organisation whose goal has always been to dominate the life of the people living on this planet like any other evil empire will do.

this is the kind of people we have to live with if abortion is not an option, i feel sorry for his mother ...

No matter what is written here , the Cardinal has a right to direct his flock the way he believes is correct . but what right has he to try to enforce his views on those who choose to live outside the Roman Catholic church

Who protect the un born babies in our country, there have to be a message to young boys and girls that killing a baby is not the answer.

the church and notion of god are all antiquidated.....old science fiction for weak people who need to believe in something bigger than themselves. many of its ideas are impractical nowadays.

Junglemonkey?????

yes jungle monkey and well named judging by his remarks

Maybe he Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

I think it's time that the DR introduces "Separation of Church and State" to its constitution.

Antonio1 So what is the answer? More of the same? Do you think the poor will change behavior and cut down on their fertility rate? We are passed the point of philosophy and must take action now! Either we sacrifice the few or we all go down! Pick your poison!

Edward ..it is moving exactly the opposite way and with the forthcoming visit of the Pope nothing will change for many years ..the greatest feeling most Dominicans have is inertia

so if i am of another faith besides Roman Catholic and reside in Dominican Republic this archaic bishop of questionable morals is to decide government policy ? Nothing like seperation of powers

The Church is one of the reason why the Latin world has been kept under dictatorship and underdevelopment. In Haiti, it is more powerful than even the state. Until we, as free spirited people, don't make those pedophiles, that are preying on our kids, understand that they are artifacts of the past, we won't go anywhere, and we will be stuck with their backward vision of the Universe and God. Like the wise man says: "I don't know what God is, but I know what he isn't."
And those fellows, after highjacking the Church with Constantin the Great, who was the very first Pope, they inserted in its rituals all the pagan belief we've been bombarded for more than a thousand years.
I say, let's make those profiters and abusers stay in their corner and not meddle into politics, and if someone wants to keep worshipping the sun with them, that is his or her problem.

What a pity that the man who should upheld the ethics is so selective and behaves like Trujillo, .
Why doesn't he speak out against the child pregnancies in the country and the rapes and abuses of children? Why doesn't he speak up about the poverty that the born baby will suffer? Why doesn't he speak up of the people that die of hunger or lack of medical assistance? Why doesn't he speak up about the situation in the public hospitals like Dario Contreras where the sick and wounded are being treated in what I would call the most unhigienic place with the worse equipment? Why doesn't he speak out against the social injustice? Well maybe he doesn't know the country he is living in becuase he lives isolated in his palace, but then he should keep his mouth shut and stay in his own isolated world.

maxsanpedro,

Gracias!