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Catholic teaching regards an IUD as an abortifacient because it can prevent implantation of a fertilized embryo in the womb, and thus many Catholic health care facilities decline to offer the procedure.
SÃO PAULO (OSV News) -- Pro-life activists demonstrated in dozens of Brazilian cities Oct. 8 to celebrate the country's Day of the Unborn Child and protest against the decriminalization of abortion, a possibility that was being analyzed by the Supreme Court in September. The Brazilian church has been promoting an unprecedented campaign against abortion this