08/14/2021 1:32 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/14/2021 1:50 AM
The national government headed by Alberto Fernández approved this Saturday the regulation of Law No. 27,610, which regulates
access to voluntary interruption of pregnancy
and which was sanctioned on December 30, 2020.
The new measure was embodied in Decree 516/2021, which was published in the Official Gazette and which bore the signature of the President;
the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti;
the Chief of Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero, and the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta.
In the first article, the annex with the regulations is approved, while in the second, the Ministry of Health of the Nation is established as the authority for the application of said law, as well as the power to dictate the "clarifying norms and complementary that are necessary ".
As detailed in the document, this law is carried out “in compliance with the commitments assumed by the Argentine State in matters of public health and human rights of women and of other people with other gender identities with the capacity to gestate, to guarantee a a more plural society, more respectful of our differences and less unequal ”.
“As of the sanction of the law that is regulated by this decree, the Argentine Republic begins to
retrace the path of criminal threat and inequality
and to follow that of social justice, respect for autonomy and the exercise of rights as democratic and constitutional responses so that women and pregnant people have the same care and conditions, regardless of the jurisdiction in which they live, their socioeconomic level and the health system where they are treated ”, they clarify regarding the importance of the law .
In the annex, with the signature of the Secretary for Access to Health, Sandra Tirado, it is specified how the exercise of the
right to confidentiality
will be put into practice
, which is "extended to any person who accesses the clinical documentation of the benefits regulated in Law No. 27,610 ".
"By virtue of this right and the duty to maintain professional secrecy,
health personnel
may not deliver information obtained in the context of health care
to any person, unless there is an express court order that relieves this duty in a legal case or Except for the express written authorization of the patient herself ", it is explained.
On the other hand, it is clarified that "
health personnel may not refuse to carry out the interruption of pregnancy
in an emergency", since "the physical health or life of the pregnant person would be put at risk."
Likewise, the importance of developing "training programs" is highlighted, in order to "supervise, monitor and report on the implementation" of these new regulations.
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