Sergio Rubin
03/01/2020 - 17:05
- Clarín.com
- Society
After the announcement of President Alberto Fernández before the Assembly that he will send a project to legalize abortion, the Church chose not to disseminate a declaration for now. His spokesmen, on the other hand, ratified the call for a Mass for next Sunday in Luján under the slogan "Yes to women, yes to life" which, in fact, signifies the beginning of his new battle against the legal initiative.
The bishops have long been discounting the presidential announcement and are preparing to oppose. Unlike the previous debate, which enabled the then president Mauricio Macri - on the one who declared himself a president - this time the Church did not delay . At that time he attributed few possibilities to his approval and prioritized the actions of his faithful and the “pro-life” NGOs.
However, after the sanction in the Chamber of Deputies came out strongly to the ring. He considered that a sector of the government's weight had pressured several deputies to vote in favor - he says that four turned in the early morning of the vote - and then broke into. Another reason for his reluctance was that he did not want it to be said that the opposition was for religious reasons, but moral: "the defense of life."
Now, then, she is willing to play strong entry , especially because this time the president took the lead. In addition to the Mass, they will meet again with legislators to dissuade them and appeal intensely to the networks. For their part, the “pro-life” NGOs will again deploy their campaign, which will begin with a new march to the UBA Law School - as in 2016 - for Saturday, March 28.
Beyond the opposition to the project, an issue that interests bishops is their details . For instance, what term will be proposed for the voluntary termination of pregnancy, if the conscientious objection to health workers will be absolute or will have exceptions, such as the obligation to do so where there are no doctors who do not oppose. And whether or not it will be institutional, that is, if the clinics can claim it.
For the rest, the bishops value the complementary project announced by the president of food assistance for the first thousand days to those vulnerable women who want to move forward with their pregnancy. And an eventual facilitation of the adoption procedures, which is being pulled. But they say that this does not moderate their opposition to the legalization of abortion at all.
In the event that the project is approved, the possibility of appearing before the Justice will remain because the celestial ones consider it unconstitutional and go against international treaties to which Argentina adhered. However, it would not be the bishops who would appeal to that resource, but rather let it be done by individuals, “pro-life” NGOs or the law faculties of Catholic universities.
The bishops especially question that Fernandez has said that abortion is "a matter of public health" and "a right that allows women to dispose of their bodies" because they believe that another life in gestation is at stake. And they believe that their position has a majority support as the focus moves away from the metropolitan area and moves on the Interior.
For the rest, they accept that the project will probably be approved in Deputies, but that it could be rejected in the Senate , like the previous time, when the difference against it was seven votes. The bishops acknowledge that in the upper house "several celestial legislators ended their term and other greens entered, but also some celestial ones," they say. Thus, they conclude, the vote there could be very even.
The vast majority of evangelical churches, in turn, have long since declared themselves "on alert . " Nucleadas in the Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches of the Argentine Republic (ACIERA), which in 2016 organized a massive concentration in the Obelisk, said they were willing to coordinate actions with the Catholic Church to oppose the project of Alberto F.
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