The government of Mexico City has refused a request by the president of the National Pro-Life Committee, Jorge Serrano Limon, to publish the list of doctors authorized to perform abortions.

“We are not going to give them anything. They have no authority,” said Mexico City governor Marcelo Ebrard, who said no hospital would be allowed to reveal the number of abortions it has provided.

Serrano Limon said pro-life groups will launch a kind of “operation rescue” in the capital in order to encourage women to save their unborn children.

Ebrard also refused requests to meet with a representative of the Church.  “Each of us has to work in his sphere, and the government has to do its work and follow the law,” he said.