Fidel Castro's Cuba is the abortion mill of the Caribbean, no surprise for a totalitarian regime with no regard for human life. Why should the unborn deserve anything better?
Abortion is an epidemic in Cuba, much moreso than even in the United States. In 2000, there were in the U.S., 246 abortions for every 1,000 live births. In Cuba, the "abortion ration" was 531.6 in 2000, and in 2004, it was 1191.1.
Among the champions in Cuba for life — all life — is Dr. Oscar Biscet, who next week will be honored at the White House, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Biscet, who currently is in prison, began his dissent in the 1990s, when he researched and eventually published a paper that criticized how the Cuban health care system provided women with chemically induced abortions.
The Cuban health care system, which is built on so many false myths — most significantly, that it reflects how well the dictatorship thinks of Cubans — responded by firing Biscet.
But he would not be silenced, even after being thrown into one of Castro's dungeons.
LifeNews.com has more on Biscet's anti-abortion credentials:
Biscet was arrested and served three years in a prison camp after publishing an article condemning abortion. After he was released, Biscet was again arrested and is serving 25 years in prison for anti-government views.Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1961, Biscet received his degree as a specialist in internal medicine, and, by 1987, he was practicing and teaching obstetrics at the Hijas de Galicia hospital in the nation's capital city.
In the early 1990s, the drug Rivanol was being used to provide young Cuban women with chemically induced abortions, Raimundo Rojas, the Hispanic Outreach Director for National Right to Life, tells LifeNews.com.
Dr. Biscet began researching and compiling evidence as to how this strong abortifacient was being used to destroy children. He also documented many accounts of children being killed after surviving this type of abortion.
Biscet eventually wrote a paper titled "Rivanol: A Method to Destroy Life," that he published in April 1998. Later that year, he denounced the Cuban National Health System as being a party to genocide, Rojas said.
Shortly thereafter, the nation's health system officially expelled Biscet, preventing him from practicing medicine in Cuba.
In February 1999 Dr. Biscet staged a peaceful pro-life protest in front of an abortion facility notorious for providing Rivanol abortions. He and another pro-life doctor were savagely beaten by a mob.
"He was tried and sentenced to three years in jail for simply stating the truth," Rojas told LifeNews.com.
Biscet served the entirety of his three year term.
One month after his release, Dr. Biscet was arrested while meeting with other dissidents in a private home. He was again savagely beaten and this time sentenced to 25 years in jail, Rojas explained.
"His torture at the hands of Castro's henchmen is well documented and he continues to speak from his cell for the dignity of all life including that of the unborn," Rojas says.
Biscet is perhaps the most recognized Cuban political prisoner, and rightfully so, for how his story potentially appeals to so many different interests.
He is black. He is an advocate for non-violence.
And he is pro-life.
The challenges are many for the anti-abortion movement in the United States. But hopefully, there is room in its agenda for Oscar Biscet and the cause of freedom, and life, in Cuba.
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