After the failure of the Omnibus Law in Congress, it emerged that a
group of deputies from La Libertad Avanza
presented a
bill
to
repeal the abortion law
, approved in December 2020.
The news emerged on Thursday night but the file, with parliamentary procedure number 233, was
registered in the entry system
of the Chamber of Deputies
last Monday
.
The project proposes
the repeal of Law 27,610 on Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy
- approved in Congress on December 30, 2020 and in force since its promulgation on January 14, 2021 - and aims to return the situation to the previous regulations.
The text bears the signature of the head of the libertarian bench
Oscar Zago
, that of the deputy, cosplayer and anti-abortion activist
Lilia Lemonie
and her peers
Rocío Bonacci, Beltrán Benedit, María Fernanda Araujo and Manuel Quintar
.
Lilia Lemoine, one of the deputies who promotes the repeal of legal abortion Photo Fernando de la Orden
In this way, if approved, whoever causes an abortion will be
punished with confinement or prison of one to four years
if he acts with the consent of the woman.
If this were not the case, the sentence increases from three to ten years in prison.
There will also be penalties for doctors, surgeons, midwives or pharmacists who will receive a special disqualification for double the sentence if they "abuse their science or art to cause abortion or cooperate in causing it."
The law that enabled legal, safe and free abortion was approved in December 2020, after an extensive and detailed legislative debate and important street demonstrations for and against its implementation.
It had had a first legislative attempt in 2018, when it was rejected in the Senate.
News in development.
D.S.