Forced Abortion in Cuba
The communist leadership in Cuba is determined to force one of their political prisoners to abort her baby. Lisdany Rodriguez, 25 years old, was arrested for peacefully protesting in 2021 and sentenced to eight years in prison. During a conjugal visit with her husband of eight years, Lisdany conceived after years of trying prior to the arrest. Though the government will not force her to have an abortion, they are denying her necessary prenatal care. On top of denying Lisdany medical visits, the prison often refuses her requests for food. According to Cuba’s “Regulation of the Penitentiary System,” prison authorities have “the obligation to allow her to go through the entire gestation process and to attend to her medical needs and even to allow her, if she wishes, to be with the child during its first year of life.” However, it is clear that the law matters little to communist officials.
“Why should this baby receive a death sentence?” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “Because this is what atheistic communist regimes do. They kill. In China or North Korea, the baby would already be dead, but the Cuban regime is not quite that barbaric.”
“Carl Oglesby once said that the Left has never developed any alternative to terror,” Mr. Mosher further commented. “We were treated to a taste of that terror during the BLM riots of 2020 and the Covid lockdowns in 2021. The Left will only be more ruthless next time.”