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Anti-abortion groups demonstrated in front of Quinta de Olivos

2020-10-24T22:29:45.673Z


They demanded that the President of the Nation not present the bill to legalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in Congress.


10/24/2020 6:32 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 10/24/2020 6:39 PM

A group of anti-abortion protesters, grouped in the "Pro-Life Liaison Table", called for a rally in front of the Olivos presidential office to protest against the presidential announcements of the imminent sending of an abortion legalization project to the National Congress.

The call proposed a vehicular caravan around the fifth of Olivos, with a concentration at the corner of Villate and Wineberg streets, the usual entrance through which you enter the presidential property.

When they arrived at the scene, Federal Police officers asked the protesters to leave and in a video broadcast on social networks they denounced that they were not allowed to "demonstrate democratically" and that they were "denying them a right."

Anti-abortion organizations demonstrate in a caravan in front of the Olivos Presidential Palace.

Photo: Juano Tesone.

"Where is Democracy? They always repress us.

Why don't they repress the greens

and so many other scoundrels?" Asks one of the detractors of legal, safe and free Abortion. 

As specified in their convocation, this is a new protest "in addition to those already common in the National Obelisk, replicated in many cities in the interior, in a claim against the extension of the quarantine, the attempt at judicial reform, the increase in the poverty, and now the threat of a possible sending of a project to decriminalize abortion ".

The organizers and attendees of the march consider that "the majority of Argentines reject the initiative" that promotes legal abortion.

"More than 30 million Argentines reject abortion, and we also repudiate this attempt to put it out the window, taking advantage of the unprecedented social crisis that the entire society is going through, punished by poverty and the most unprecedented and widespread quarantine in the world", they expressed in a statement calling for a march.

Anti-abortion groups gathered in front of the Quinta de Olivos.

Photo: Juano Tesone.

They also defined that the possible sending of the bill to the National Congress is about "an attempt to legislate this crime, when the urgent is not attended to, it is a provocation."

"

This month nobody charged the IFE and they come with this, they are going to cause a social outbreak,

" said Raúl Magnasco, president of + Vida, the main anti-abortion NGO.

For his part, Facundo Gauto, from the “Pro-Life Liaison Table”, said about the reasons that move them to mobilize: “We know that the IMF demands this type of crime to reduce the population in exchange for debt, the government is willing in exchange for funding, but they won't bring us to our knees.

The poor need a present state, not to be eliminated before they are born.

This is a mobilization for life, but also against abortion and against the IMF ”.

In this context, Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero confirmed that

the national government is "waiting for the necessary time"

to send the project and that it "be treated accordingly."

The official should have come out publicly to offer those details after presidential adviser Dora Barrancos said last week in an interview that the project was going to be sent in the next few days.

Anti-abortion organizations arrived in a vehicular caravan to the Quinta Presidencial and asked that the project of voluntary interruption of pregnancy not be presented in Congress.

Photo: Juano Tesone.

Within the ruling party, arguments are deployed for and against the opportunity to send it before the end of 2020.

The project in question has already been written by the legal secretary of the Presidency, whose head Vilma Ibarra and the Minister of Women, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta are the main promoters of the initiative within the Cabinet.

"Everything is handled and decided by the Presidency," they

told Télam from that portfolio.

From the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion they promise "surprise actions" for next week and have a meeting scheduled for Wednesday afternoon with authorities of the Chamber of Deputies, where the initiative would enter.

This week, the authorities of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA) expressed that they were "sadly surprised" by the news about the imminent presentation of the project before Congress and considered that the public health situation "makes any attempt to present and untimely discuss "such a law.

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Source: clarin

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