The Guatemalan parliament withheld a controversial law regarding abortion and ethnic minorities.

Thus, the Guatemalan deputies overturned the goal of promoting the law under pressure from the social and international sectors that expressed opposition to a new law called the Life Protection Law and the Family Protection Act in the last days.

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Imagen de archivo. Un hombre camina frente al Congreso guatemalteco, que está decorado con banderas como parte de las celebraciones del 191° Día de la Independencia, en Ciudad de Guatemala, el 10 de septiembre de 2012. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

The Guatemalan parliament closed a controversial law passed a week ago on Tuesday to fight abortion and “minority groups that are not consistent with Christian morality.”