08/08/2020 - 20:00
- Clarín.com
- Society
In the early morning of August 8, 2018, the Senate rejected the legal and free abortion bill. The organizations that opposed the enactment of the law took that date, 8A , to celebrate the International Day of Action for Two Lives . This Saturday, they organized a national call that materialized in two ways. On the one hand, with car caravans in different parts of the country and on the other, with an online event .
Convened from the page www.2vidas.org, there were concentrations in different localities of 14 provinces. The one of Capital and Greater Buenos Aires left at 14 from Sarmiento and Colombia avenues, and arrived at the Congress , where after half an hour they deconcentrated. According to sources from the organization, there were about 200 cars that participated , about four blocks of vehicles.
“I am very happy that people were able to demonstrate today, despite the context. And it was exciting to see her, reaffirming our convictions as in 2018 , defending rights and accompanying women and unborn children, "said Inés Brogin, spokesperson for Unidad Pro Vida, the national network of organizations.
With Argentine flags, two protesters in Congress. (Pro Life Unit)
The most massive call was the Cordoba. There, the #CaravanaProVida, which was invited from Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, began at 10 in the morning, with a transmission through an FM that was guiding the cars from different points to the Patio Olmos, where the volunteers The organization gave pre-printed light blue and white flags with the legend “Let's save the 2 lives” to cars that did not have their own decoration.
Celestial smoke in the Cordoba call, the most massive. (Pro Life Unit)
“Córdoba is heavenly”, harangued the FM Amistad announcer. Many vehicles carried their own Argentine flags, and light blue and white balloons. Upon arriving at the rally site, people got out next to their car with masks on, and many blew horns and waved flags. And the square was filled with blue smoke from the flares that the organization also delivered. The Pro Vida Córdoba Network told Clarín that they had 300 flares because they expected that number of cars but they were more than double, about 800 vehicles .
“We are very happy with the result of the call, because we realized that people want to mobilize . I have worked with the problem of vulnerable motherhood for 17 years as a volunteer. What mobilizes me is that the accompaniment of women does work. It seems that in the hardest moments there is no solution and abortion appears as the only offer . But we can find much more humane and comprehensive solutions, ”said Memé Moscoso, institutional coordinator of Portal de Belén and one of the promoters of the Córdoba caravan.
The pro-life demonstration for 8A in the city of Paraná. (Pro Life Unit)
The quarantine restrictions also led the organizers to move the demonstration to the virtual plane. On their YouTube channel and on a Facebook live, they broadcast a program that lasted more than two hours in which different participants from different parts of the country and abroad expressed their opinion regarding abortion .
A protester in the caravan to Congress. (Pro Life Unit)
One of the points that the call went through, both virtual and in person, was the rejection of the national protocol of non-punishable abortion , to which the City of Buenos Aires adhered this week after the approval of the Legislature.
"Stopping this perverse law does not mean that we have won because clandestine abortion hides behind non-punishable abortion ," said the host of the online program, the pro-life activist Ana Belén Marmora, at the beginning of the program, to anticipate that they would later tell "The story of thousands of real women who were abandoned by the health system, because they jeopardize our right to be a mother ."
The conductors gave way to different exhibitors and one of them was María “Tani” de Urraza, obstetrician at the Mi Pueblo Hospital in Florencio Varela. The doctor also questioned the non-punishable abortion protocol: “In public hospitals they offer abortion first before attending the vulnerable pregnancy . I work with vulnerable sectors and there is a stigmatization of pregnancy in poor women, it is like they say 'Well, we give you contraceptives, different methods to prevent pregnancy and you get pregnant, well, we give you abortion'. Clearly all patients in vulnerable conditions incite them to abortion before offering the real solutions that a woman needs ”.
Moscoso expressed the same idea: "We work so that women do not abort, we go to the origin of the problem, women do not want to have an abortion for sport, they want it because they have real problems that seem to have no solution ."
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