After a group of deputies from La Libertad Avanza presented a bill to repeal the abortion law, approved in December 2020, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health,
Nicolás Kreplak
, expressed his rejection of the bill to repeal the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE) and considered that "
there is no valid debate
" on the subject.
"Since the abortion law was passed, 90% of deaths from this cause were reduced in the province of Buenos Aires; that is,
45 deaths were avoided if the average was sustained
," Kreplak argued through his account. social network
A few hours after the libertarian bloc presented the project, whose author is Rocío Bonacci, the Buenos Aires minister retorted: "There is no valid debate. It is a matter of public health. They
entertain us while they adjust and starve. They will not pass."
Since the abortion law was passed, 90% of deaths from this cause were reduced in @BAProvincia, that is, 45 deaths were avoided if the average was sustained.
There is no valid debate.
It is a matter of public health.
They entertain us while they adjust and starve.
Not pass.
pic.twitter.com/rzzejOcGpZ
— Nicolás Kreplak (@nkreplak) February 8, 2024
The La Libertad Avanza proposal, which
bears the signature of the Oscar Zago bloc and Lilia Lemoine
- who later denied having signed it -, transcends 24 hours after the failure of the Omnibus Law in Congress.
The news became known on Wednesday 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
, which was approved in Congress on December 30, 2020 and has been in force since its promulgation on January 14, 2021.
Furthermore, it aims to take the situation back to a much earlier regulation, by moving against pregnancy interruptions that, prior to the approval of legal abortion, were generally authorized for different reasons - abortion was not punishable in cases of risk to the health of the child. women or in cases of rape -, present in the Civil Code since 1921 and ratified by the Supreme Court in 2012. The libertarian proposal, on the other hand,
barely mentions cases of "risk of life"
.
The text by Rocío Bonacci - a 27-year-old representative, a podiatrist by profession and elected by the province of Santa Fe - and bears the signature of the head of the libertarian party
Oscar Zago
, that of the representative, cosplayer and anti-abortion activist
Lilia Lemoine
and her peers
Beltrán Benedit
,
María Fernanda Araujo
and
Manuel Quintar.
The head of the libertarian bench Oscar Zago.Photos: Emmanuel Fernández
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.
It also proposes 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."