strategies to legalize abortion in Argentina by year-end greeting
By Alejandra Waigandt and personalities of the union, political, academic, and legal communications sets out proposals for achieving the ultimate sanction of the law on abortion this year. This agreement was reached at a meeting organized by the founders of the National Campaign for Abortion Rights, which has more than five years of battle and has representation throughout the country.
The National Campaign for the Right to Legal Abortion Safe and Free took a step forward in the fight to legalize abortion in Argentina, on Saturday 19 at a meeting in the Union of Education Workers (UTE).
obtained not only participation federal, institutions and personalities had Córdoba, Chaco, Formosa, Black River, Neuquén, La Pampa and Buenos Aires. Also identified strong proposals to secure the approval of the law of abortion and advance discussion on the extension of rights in various areas, but mainly in health and education.
The bill proposed by the Campaign ends with the criminalization of women who voluntarily decide to terminate their unwanted pregnancies, and regulates access to appropriate health care in the performance of abortions to 12 weeks of gestation. Specifically, repealing a series of articles Penal Code prohibiting the practice and establish lineaments for health care for women.
Campaign presented this initiative at the National Congress on three occasions, but only last year earned the support of more than 50 legislators and MPs from different parties and political forces. This year should be treated in the Criminal Law Committee, Social Action and Public Health, and Family, Women, Children and Adolescents, the Chamber of Deputies.
Parliamentary work begins on 8 March, and against the election year in dance, sectors meeting on Saturday decided to work tirelessly the first three months to deepen the debate in Congress, increasing the membership, and to press for electoral candidates speak out on immoral penalty of more than 500 000 women a year who are forced to terminate their pregnancies illegally, and put their lives at risk from a health system that also criminalized.
In this regard, Rep. Diana Maffia Buenos Aires (CC) required to look for the pronouncements of those who top the list of candidates. The former national lawmaker for the Socialist Party warned Silvia Augsburger systematized actions of the organizations 'rightist' and the national representative Free South of Cecilia Marchan said his par Cynthia Hotton won a hearing in the Committee on Criminal Law and legal reforms to prevent the legalization of abortion. He urged these institutions to request a meeting of the Commission President Juan Carlos Vega (CC-Córdoba) for that may arise in this context the arguments summarized in the campaign get 'sex education to decide, not abortion and contraceptive legal abortion not to die. "
Proposals Campaign proposed a requested on 8 March, International Women's Day, and all institutions and personalities present at the meeting agreed. In most cases the declaration signed in a personal capacity, but pledged to present it in different directions, advice and chairs to give their approval.
For its part, the education sector proposed to develop an interdisciplinary academic foundation document on abortion, so as to enrich the parliamentary debate. So far there have been important documents separately, but the sharing of knowledge and expertise of academic institutions and organizations from different fields provide a basis for critical discussion.
this gave rise to another the proposals were agreed by all present and all: strengthening the coordination of the organizations, groups, individuals and activists who support the activities of the Campaign. This space has been expanded, the same Saturday the Argentina Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans formalized its integration into the campaign, its president Paulone were made available to the same federal structure of the organization. Paulone as references both the Comunidad Homosexual Argentina shared their experiences on Equal Marriage Act. For its part, Lohana Berkins of the Association for the Struggle for Transvestite Transsexual Identity ALITT joined the strategy being developed to achieve the adoption of gender identity law in Parliament. The ALITT and Nadia Work Cooperative Ltd Echazu working for years on several fronts to obtain a legal abortion.
The goal is to operationalize the joint. The joint venture, through the Secretary of Equal Opportunity and Gender, Mabel Sampaolo also made available to the campaign structure and resources. He also described the progress of the Secretariat for inclusion in the union policies regarding sexual and reproductive rights, and abortion. So did Stella Maldonado, secretary general of CTERA-Argentina, who also announced the accession of International Education.
There were numerous expressions in this sense, not only institutions but also of people representing social, academic, political and cultural. Nora Cortinas, Madre de Plaza de Mayo Founding Line confessed that few mothers of the organization that favors a change in abortion law, so asked the campaign to submit the request in the same organization to address the issue and rule. He promised that it would begin Monday with the activism of the law, hanging the green scarf that identifies the Campaign in your office. The
conducting a public event on May 28 in commemoration of the creation of the Campaign and the struggle for life and dignity of women, and enjoy the right to voluntary motherhood, plus the development of advocacy strategies in media were two other initiatives accomplished on Saturday. The first was driven by the Campaign, and the latter agreed to following the intervention of journalists specialized in gender.
In the field of health needs to be done, according to activists who insisted that the ethics committees of hospitals and clinics are a bastion shields health professionals opposed to the practice of abortion. Most of these professionals graduated in religious schools and move their personal beliefs to the scope of work. In that sense, Marita Perceval, a former national legislator and current member of the Human Rights Department, said he is working on this issue for the committees to fall within the Secretariat of Human Rights, and to discourage delay in the indication of performance of abortions that are not penalized by the current legislation. This behavior puts at risk the lives of hundreds of women.
Commemorating Dora Coledesky activist, a tireless fighter for women's rights, died on August 17 last year, by Irene Ocampo RIMA touched each and every person who discussed the proposals on Saturday and burst into applause and cheers' Dora present. " Artemis
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