Alive: 'There are not two lives here as some say,' said Ginés González García about abortion in Congress

12/01/2020 18:18

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Updated 12/01/2020 18:18

The plenary of commissions of the Chamber of Deputies began this Tuesday the round of speakers who give their positions

, which will include testimonies in favor and ten against the official initiative. 

In defending the IVE project sent to Congress by the Executive Power in plenary, the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, assured that the issue of clandestine abortion "has a solution" and said that

", note that with the legalization of this practice "a cause of death is eliminated."

"If abortion were for men, it would be law a long time ago

,

emphasized the official in his presentation via Zoom from the Casa Rosada, and expressed that "it is about social justice, because the one who can abort in a safe place, does it , with pain, but it solves it, while the weakest do not solve it or sometimes they do it with death ".

"There are not two lives here as some say," says Ginés González García in the debate over the #Legal Abortion pic.twitter.com/z3sDgf6GvZ

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Addressing the deputies, he continued: "We know that sometimes they have to suffer strains, even when they have evidence that this has a solution; and in the face of this situation of violence, think about what these women suffer when they are in conditions of this type."

When presenting the initiative, the Legal and Technical Secretary and in charge of the project writing, Vilma Ibarra, highlighted that President Alberto Fernández had fulfilled his campaign promise,

in claiming this right and to the women who They are part of the National Campaign for the Right to Safe and Free Legal Abortion.

The official also

, reinforcing the ESI throughout the Argentine territory, preventing gender violence and abuse and facilitating access to contraceptive methods.

"Legal abortion or clandestine abortion, there is no other option," said Ibarra, who has long been a feminist activist and promoter of the Equal Marriage law.

Against the project that legalizes abortion, Father Pepe Di Paola expressed through videoconference: "As priests and religious of towns and popular neighborhoods we learned from neighbors to love and take care of life. The bonds of love that are generated between the poorest show us that

.

"The capitalist countries that have approved abortion have purged, with a quasi-Nazi thought, 90% of unborn children with Down syndrome. What comes next? The elimination of the elderly?", The religious questioned.

Di Paola revealed that he had several communications with Pope Francis in the face of the debate that began in the country to legalize the interruption of pregnancy.

"The Pope told me that the distortion in the understanding of abortion is born, mainly, in considering it a religious issue because he considers that it is a human problem prior to any religious option. The issue of abortion must be dealt with scientifically. Francis emphasizes this to me because he maintains that many believe that the 'no' to abortion is an opinionated and unscientific position, "he explained.

Next,

, from the National Campaign for the Right to Abortion, considered that "pregnancy is not easy, it is not something like that."

"It is a process with many implications. Saying that you have to gestate and then give it up for adoption is not ethical. Decriminalizing abortion has a fundamental effect, because all sexual relations - which are a source of pleasure and reproduction - have so far been treated as something negative, with a veil of sadness, "he added.

After the session on Tuesday, the exhibitors' schedule will continue tomorrow with another thirty testimonies, divided into 15 in favor and 15 against;

while on Thursday the internal debate of the deputies of the General Legislation, Health, Penal Legislation and Women commissions will begin.

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