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Keiko Fujimori Says Rape Victims Should 'Keep Their Babies'

  • A picture of Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party is seen on a truck at a recycling plant in Lima, Peru

    A picture of Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party is seen on a truck at a recycling plant in Lima, Peru | Photo: Reuters

Published 5 May 2016
Opinion

The presidential candidate pronounced her opposition to civil unions between same-sex couples, as well as abortion — even in case of rape.

Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori once again declared her rejection of same-sex marriage and abortion during a public event with Protestant and evangelical churches.

Fujimori, from the right-wing political party Popular Force, expressed at the meeting that she is in favor of the family, but only the heterosexual nuclear family centering on male and female couples rather than people of the same sex.

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"I have said this before, I believe in the role of the family as the fundamental pillar of society. It is clear that I am not in favor of civil unions and adoption of children by homosexual couples and I’m against abortion," said Fujimori.

She also said that women who are raped should “keep their babies” since they are not guilty of what happened to them.

During the meeting Fujimori signed a document in which she committed to keep her positions if elected in the runoff planned for June 5, in which she will face another right-wing candidate, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

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Both candidates are currently tied according to the latest polls.

Fujimori is the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, who is in jail for human rights abuses committed during his time in power (1990-2000), including forced disappearances, tens of thousands of forced sterilizations of mostly poor and Indigenous women, and torture.

She served as first lady of Peru during the last six years of her father's dictatorship.

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