A pastor had to escorted out of a conference and back to his church under police protection, a Roman Catholic Cathedral sustained heavy damages during a night-time attack, a Christian radio station was vandalised, and prolife activists have endured “slander and abuses”. These are some of the incidents involving the Green Kerchief militants who most recently led the drive to introduce an extreme abortion law to Argentina and who have also been to the forefront in promoting the legal imposition of a radical redefinition of sex and gender. A bid to liberalise Argentina’s abortion law was defeated in the Senate last week.

The NGO “Pro-Life Unity Neuquén and Alto Valle” has condemned the incidents. Pro-abortion and LGBT activists “should not shut down the freedom of speech they themselves preach,” they said in a statement. The group denounced “the sequence of events which attempt against fundamental freedoms of the pro-life sectors”. A “religious worship service had to be cancelled after the attack of Green Kerchiefs, with stones and Molotov cocktails”. But also “attacks in the media against an educational institution just because it teaches values which are part of its vision” are not acceptable. The NGO refers to the campaign against the faith-based school AMEN, run by a Baptist church. These kind of public pressures have also been frequent in the social media in the last weeks, during the social debate around the Argentinian abortion law. The pro-life group in the province calls for “tolerance, freedom and justice, because we live in a democracy.”