Nikolas Ferreira: In recent years, the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) stopped judging only laws and began to decide on pillars of society, such as criminal law, family, faith, property, freedom of expression and even abortion.
Nikolas Ferreira: So the senators who have not yet publicly rejected the nomination will have to admit, before Brazil, that they are putting in the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) a person with this record.
Messias, who says he is a Christian, declares himself evangelical and told religious leaders that he is opposed to abortion.
Nikolas Ferreira: But when the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) summoned him to comment on the decision of the Federal Medical Council that prohibited fetal systole in pregnancies over 22 weeks, he signed an opinion saying that this prohibition was unconstitutional.
Nikolas Ferreira: Fetal systole, just so you understand, is a procedure in which a substance is injected into the baby's heart to cause its death before birth.