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Buenos Aires, December 1, 2010 
http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-157864-2010-12 -01.html With the exposure of the Danish Marianne Mollman, legal expert at Human Rights Watch, began to be discussed in the Criminal Law Committee a project that aims to decriminalize abortion up to twelve weeks gestation.
By Mariana Carbajal
"The criminalization of abortion incompatible with human rights "and" not only bring serious consequences to health and life of the woman who needs to terminate her pregnancy, but also creates a public health problem "because it results in" clandestine and unsafe practices that for decades have constituted a major cause of maternal mortality in Argentina. " So yesterday the Danish summarized Marianne Mollman, legal expert of the renowned international human rights organization Human Rights Watch, the impact of abortion in the country, opening in a historic day, the debate on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in Criminal Law Committee of the House of Deputies.
As expected, was the only speaker invited, although several deputies and deputies of the ruling and opposition, when the questions, express their position, mainly in favor of decriminalization and legalization of abortion. "No woman gets pregnant to abort," he said Mollman, in a very clear English, noting that "the suffering caused by the criminalization of abortion in the country they live almost exclusively on the poor."
According to his research in Argentina, he said, the criminalization leads women to desperate measures, such as attempting to abort with knitting needles, probes and parsley stems. " The specialist also broke the major arguments of the anti-rightist groups, aligned with the position of the Catholic hierarchy and evangelical groups opposed to the decriminalization, and clarified that "there exists in international human rights law to life embryo, because no society has agreed begins when a human being. " In this regard, stressed that it is a misunderstanding to maintain that the American Convention on Human Rights protects life from conception always because "the intention of the drafters was to allow legislation has domestic permitting abortion. "
The meeting was headed by the chairman of the Criminal Law, Juan Carlos Vega, who stressed that the country is practiced around 450 thousand abortion per year, and pledged to continue the debate the issue next year, with the insistent posing of deputies of the ruling and opposition parties. "Everything in this committee is open ends," said Vega, the Civic Coalition, to ensure that yesterday's not the only call to talk about projects that address the issue of abortion. He acknowledged that this is a debate "crossed by religion and poverty" and said he had received about 850 emails with threats.
The project has more accessions, of which they were made out to the Penal Law, is the National Campaign for the Right to Abortion Legal, Safe and Free, with nearly fifty signatures of deputies. Yesterday added two more: Juan Pablo Tunesi radicals and Sandra Riobó announced its commitment to the initiative, which decriminalized abortion (IVE) in the first 12 weeks of gestation.
Página/12 Vega told will be the fourth item on the agenda of the committee next year, but said that before tackling the analysis of projects will be days like of yesterday, with invitations to specialists "to listen to all positions." The fact that the next is an election year could delay treatment until 2012 in the campus.
The radical and Cecilia Maria Luisa Storani Merchán, of Free the South, attending the session, had a key role in negotiating with the authorities of Penal Law, which made an alliance cross, to finally start the abortion debate this year, even at the edge of the end of the regular sessions. "We're saving lives with this," said Storani, who since joining the Congress in the last election, promised to stimulate discussion in Parliament.
Mollman exposure was needed in data, to be referred to the recent increase in maternal mortality that was released this week and that puts the consequences of unsafe abortions as the main cause (see separate article). He elaborated on the health impact of the criminalization of abortion and also on the human rights framework and responsibilities of the Argentine government at the time of incorporating international treaties into the constitution. In that sense, explained that Plexus policy implies a duty to "decriminalize and legalize abortion" to "protect the right to life, health, integrity and autonomy of women "and that the State provide abortion services to ensure" access to Practice "to all women, not only those who can afford it.
also listed the country's recent recommendations that the committee did this year's UN Human Rights and the Rights of the Child which monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (known by its acronym English, CEDAW), which coincidentally expressed concern about the consequences of the criminalization of abortion in Argentina. "Authoritative interpretations of international law recognize that access to safe and legal abortion is essential to enjoyment and realization of human rights of women, "said the specialist, who conducted two investigations in Argentina from Human Rights Watch on the tragedy of abortion and claims relating to sexual and reproductive.
1-The Board passed the one where the heated debates by Resolution 125 - was full of age and had plenty of journalistic presence. There were no incidents, although it was a contentious issue, which arouses irreconcilable positions. Among the public, more than a hundred members of the Campaign, with its green bandannas, enthusiastically followed the meeting. Some of the activists came from Neuquén, Mendoza and Chubut expected to witness the opening of debate in Congress. It did see very few people opposed to decriminalization, a woman had to be cast by security personnel to refuse to save a poster which featured a picture of a fetus and one with slogans opposing the legalization of abortion. Outside the annex of Representatives, members of leftist parties supported the discussion, Batucada, and separated by Rivadavia Avenue, a tiny group of young demonstrators with orange signs against decriminalization.
At the hearing there were about thirty deputies in most blocks, not only members of the Committee on Criminal Law, but also of others who must rule on the subject, such as Family, Women, Children and Adolescents "was its president, Claudia Rucci, the Federal Peronism, and Social Action and Public Health , headed by the Kirchner Antonio Morante. Were present and took the floor at the end of the exposure of Mollman Vilma Ibarra, Fresh Encounter, whose bloc signed the project of the Campaign but also introduced another in similar terms, but extends the period for abortions to 14 weeks; Storani Merchán The radical Silvia Storni, the Kirchner Juliana Di Tullio, Marcela Rodriguez and Fernanda Gil Lozano DC, and the socialist Miguel Barrios. All expressed support for the proposal of the campaign. They made clear its opposition to legal reform Ivana Bianchi, the Federal Peronism, and Cynthia Ho-tton Gospel, which was the only boos of the afternoon. Bianchi asked "Where is the right of the unborn child" and Mollman replied that he "does not exist in international law the right of the embryo." "There is a difference between embryo and unborn child," he added.
women MPs also heard Diana Maffía Buenos Aires (CC), María José Lubertino (Meeting People for Victory) and Estela Diaz on behalf of the Campaign.
few minutes earlier, Mollman noted that the Ministry of Health estimates that 40 percent of pregnancies end in abortion nationwide. "Logically" he went on to say that every one of you in this room knows at least one woman who has had at least one abortion. I'm sure these women and girls, your sisters, daughters, wives, mothers, friends, did not take the decision to terminate a pregnancy lightly. And I'm sure they would have preferred not to need an abortion. Any pregnant woman to abort. "
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