Sergio Rubin
10/22/2020 8:22 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/22/2020 8:22 PM
The timing of the sending of the abortion legalization project - a campaign promise by Alberto Fernández ratified on several occasions as president - is causing
a strong debate in the ruling party
as it is delayed, the months go by and the end of the
campaign
is not looming. coronavirus pandemic.
Supporters of its immediate shipment believe that it should not be delayed not only because the vaccine is not just around the corner, but because
if it is not treated this year it is very likely that the next year will not happen either
because it is electoral, a time in which the Politicians avoid highly controversial issues.
Those who believe that this is not the time consider that it would add
another front of conflict
to the many that the Government already has and in particular with the Church with which the Casa Rosada achieved a correct relationship and until now has not garnered critical statements from the bishops .
Sociologist Dora Barrancos, a presidential adviser, said in an interview that the legal abortion bill could be sent to Congress next week.
Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
Except for some exceptions such as the presidential advisor Dora Barrancos, who admitted her haste, the exponents of both positions prefer not to make it public so as not to add one more controversy to others that exponents of Kirchnerism evidenced in the media.
Although the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, is very cautious and does not want to appear pressuring the president, no one doubts that she expects Fernández to send the project as soon as possible.
It is discounted that on the other side is the Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Béliz, recently appointed member of the Vatican Academy of Social Sciences and who advises the president a lot on religious matters.
Another who ensures that he is in the same line is the Secretary of Worship,
Guillermo Oliveri
, who held the position with Néstor and Cristina Kirchner and managed to build a correct relationship with the Church, despite the turbulence that crossed it.
In the sector that promotes the immediate shipment of the project, they believe that its approval would be
a highly valued achievement
by a significant part of the population in a year in which the government had little to give.
From the other sector, there are those who consider that it is not only a matter of sending the project, but of making sure that there are enough votes not to repeat the setback of two years ago in the Senate.
There are many who observe a practical problem: there are not many ordinary sessions left and a project of this type will require a series of steps, even if the numerous hearings that preceded the previous one are not repeated.
There is another not minor issue: his treatment will
trigger marches
in the middle of the quarantine.
The Government, indirectly, would then be promoting this type of concentration that it opposes until the pandemic passes.
Given the wave of versions, the Church came out this Thursday to consider "unsustainable" and "inopportune" to discuss the legalization of abortion in the midst of the pandemic with a highly demanded health system.
He also believes that it would add one more favor of conflict in the already conflictive panorama facing the government.
"The government only needs to fight with the Church,"
said a celestial leader.
The decision is in the hands of Alberto Fernández.
Many wonder how much his desire to preserve his relationship with Pope Francis weighs in making the decision.
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