Mariana Iglesias
09/09/2021 18:02
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 09/09/2021 18:02
The State of World Population 2021 report from
the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
says that half of women in 57 developing countries have
multiple obstacles to exercising the right to bodily autonomy
.
"Depriving women and girls of their bodily autonomy
is unacceptable
: it encourages and reinforces inequalities and violence generated by gender discrimination. On the contrary, when women and girls can make decisions about their bodies, they
not only win in autonomy, but also in health, education, income and security.
All this leads to a more just world, "wrote Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA.
Being able to decide about one's own body is the most important claim of feminist movements, because historically
the bodies of girls and women have been instruments of someone else's use,
for specific purposes, such as abuse or motherhood.
Abuse is a crime.
Motherhood is not mandatory
, although many want it to be.
The developed world has had
legal abortion for decades
.
Argentina did it months ago.
This week Mexico decriminalized it.
Arturo Zaldívar, president of the Supreme Court, spoke of
"freedom, dignity, respect"
, of the historical struggle for equality and the exercise of women's rights.
It is still resisted that women have rights.
In the United States, the Supreme Court upheld Texas legislation that restricts abortion.
"It is an unprecedented assault on the constitutional rights of women,"
protested President Joe Biden.
A right always at risk
In Salta, they arrested a doctor who
guaranteed this right
to a woman who had requested a
Legal Interruption of Pregnancy (ILE)
.
There are legislators there advocating the repeal of the law, like other groups in the country.
More than 30 amparo appeals have already been filed to prevent this right.
At an average of one amparo per week, it is interesting to know
what the candidates think about this right, and with what force they will defend it.
There are parties whose main proposal is to repeal the law, such as the religious
Celeste
and
+ Valores
. For those of the extreme right such as
Unión Futuro, Avanza Libertad and Frente Patriota
it is also paramount. The most conservative candidates are against it, like Ricardo López Murphy
(United Republicans)
. And among those who define themselves as progressives too: Diego Santilli
(PRO)
assured: “if he were a deputy, I would not have supported him”; or María Eugenia Vidal (PRO), who even posed with a light blue scarf.
