Mariana Iglesias
11/17/2020 10:25 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/17/2020 10:25 AM
The secrecy is enormous but everything indicates that this Tuesday afternoon
President Alberto Fernández would announce the presentation
of the Executive Power's
bill
on Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE) in Congress.
At this time,
social networks are dyed green
- the color of the National Campaign for the Right to Safe and Free Legal Abortion - with the legend
#EsAhoraAlberto
, alluding to the president's promise to present his project and the short time that remains of the year to treat it.
Last week,
Vilma Ibarra
, Legal and Technical Secretary of the cabinet and who was in charge of the drafting of the official IVE project, confirmed that it would be presented in Congress shortly and that it would be discussed.
The president of the Lower House, Sergio Massa, had assured referents of the National Campaign that Congress does not close this summer and that there was time to discuss the projects of both the Executive and the Campaign, presented for the eighth time in May 2019 and that it still has parliamentary status.
"It is urgent", "Legal abortion is social justice"
, "It is part of history", are some of the messages that circulate, along with posts from militants explaining that abortion is a matter of public health and asking the president to keep your commitment.
campaign for legal abortion
Campaign for legal abortion
Campaign for Legal Abortion
"The long struggle for the right to voluntary abortion, in conditions of health, equality and dignity has a new political opportunity to achieve its goal.
We urge the National Congress to assume its part in the history of the expansion of rights",
begins a statement from the National Campaign and other human rights organizations.
These organizations assure that abortion is still criminalized: "Between 2012 and the present, we recorded
73 cases of criminalization of women for abortions or other obstetric events
in the media throughout the country
.
In the 26 abortions and the 47 obstetric events surveyed, the overwhelming majority of Women belong to vulnerable social sectors: they do not have paid work, have a low level of formal education and live in precarious housing conditions.
They are women who needed the care of the State and the guarantee of their rights.
However, criminal policy that supports the persecution of abortions was oriented and oriented towards poor women ".
The text ensures that the majority of women are under 30 years old, sons and daughters, that in 50% of abortion cases and in more than 75% of obstetric events they
were detained
.
The data comes from an investigation on the criminalization of abortion in which the National Campaign participates together with CELS, the San Martín University Center (CUSAM) and the researchers Gloria Orrego-Hoyos, María Lina Carrera and Natalia Saralegui.
The research is supported by the
Association of Criminal Thinking and the National Committee for the Prevention of Torture.
"Most of these women were
subjected to criminal investigations that did not respect due process
. Many of the cases were reported by health personnel, in violation of the guarantee of confidentiality in medical care, and were mistreated during hospitalization, which It supposes acts of torture.
Most of them suffered illegal raids, were subjected to forced interrogations
, forced to testify against themselves and had no or deficient legal advice, "the statement continues.
These are
processes traversed by class and gender prejudices,
in which the authorities did not guarantee fair or dignified treatment, but rather demonstrated a singular cruelty. "
"The abortion penalty is affirmed as
a control over the body and the reproductive capacity of women
. They are judged as if they could make decisions freely and autonomously, they are stigmatized as murderers, and in order to construct these figures, situations are made invisible of vulnerability they are in. Some of these women said they had suffered rape and due to ignorance or fear did not agree to a legal interruption of the pregnancy, "he continues.
And he concludes: "Legalizing access to abortion based on a deadline system is urgent.
We cannot continue to wait, at the mercy of the discretion of health care providers, police, prosecutors, judges and judges.
It is urgent that Congress treat and approve a project to legalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy. We need more rights and fewer sentences. "
Action of the National Campaign for Legal Abortion
After the announcement of the imminent progress of the project to legalize the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy,
Amnesty International illuminated the Cabildo and the Ministry of Health
with the aim of making visible the urgent demand to give a “green light” to legal abortion.
“When governments restrict access to abortion, people are forced to resort to unsafe practices, with fatal consequences.
The current Argentine system led to more than 3,000 women losing their lives in the last 30 years and another 39,000 putting their health in danger
.
The President and Congress must give the green light to the debate and end a criminalization policy that has proven to be ineffective.
The road to expanding women's rights is a debt of democracy, ”says
Mariela Belski, Executive Director of Amnesty International Argentina
.
The council intervened by an Amnesty action calling for legal abortion
Amnesty International
lit the Cabildo in green with messages such as # AbortoLegal2020 and Farewell to the iconic hanger,
which seeks to raise awareness of the unsafe and dangerous practices that the system pushes women towards.
The building of the Ministry of Health of the Nation intervened by Amnesty calling for legal abortion
"The Cabildo is a building where great social demonstrations took place in the history of Argentina. In addition, it is a building that can be seen from the presidential office in the Casa Rosada - they explain from Amnesty -. The action of lights in the Ministry of Salud is to show that the abortion debate is
a discussion that should be focused on public health,
beyond any dogma and belief that people have the right to maintain. "
From the National Campaign they call for mobilizations throughout the country tomorrow and a handkerchief at 6:30 p.m. "
demanding the start of parliamentary sessions that deal with the
bill of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy, product of a collective, diverse and horizontal construction" .