Legalization of abortion in Argentina relaunches the issue in Chile



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The approval by the Argentine Senate of the law that allows abortion in the first 14 weeks of gestation and obliges health entities to practice it if necessary, even if one of their doctors declares conscientious objection, caused great repercussions .

The vote was resolved by 38-29 and an abstention in the early morning of this Wednesday, December 30, while thousands of women waited for the result in the streets of Buenos Aires and from other cities in the neighboring country, after two years of legislative processing.

Thus, Argentina became the largest Latin American country to legalize abortion, which is also allowed in Uruguay, Cuba and Guyana, as well as in Mexico City.

The repercussion of the trans-Andean legal norm is wide, and it refloats the discussion in our country, where Law 21,030, promulgated in September 2017, regulates the decriminalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in three specific causes: danger to the life of the woman , embryo or fetus suffering from a pathology incompatible with life outside the womb, and pregnancy resulting from rape.

Eduardo Duran Eduardo Durán, RN deputy.

From the world of politics, he deputy RN Eduardo Duran held that “What happened in Argentina is sad and worrying news, because instead of focusing on education so that there is responsible sexuality and investigating the social causes of sexual assault and condemning those responsible, abortion is legalized and condemned unborn children to death. It is important to remember that abortion, whether illegal or legal, is the murder of an innocent life, and not because it is legal, it will be ethical. It is to be hoped that in our country that will never happen. No Those who at the time said that they only approved abortion in three very specific causes will be lacking, and that now they will change and ask for legal abortion in our country. And those of us who do not agree with expanding access to abortion for free, we would be financing this abortion with our taxes. Abortion is not a right, it is a crime. “

Maya Maya Fernández, deputy PS.

Your colleague Maya fernandez, of the PS, indicated that “I have always said that all issues must be debated, and what happened in Argentina is very powerful, since it was promoted by the women themselves. And well by Argentina. What happens is that clandestine abortion exists in all parts of the world . We must be honest about it, because many women who do not have resources resort to clandestine abortion, putting their lives at risk. Where this practice is not legal, it is not that it does not occur. And following with sincerity, many women with resources They travel to countries where it is legal. I ask why someone who can pay has an abortion in another country with all medical security, and the poor person has to resort to clandestine abortion. The issue is to respect someone’s will. , not imposing an idea or a law. Each woman should be able to choose about her own life with her rights. Before this debate was always mostly men in the legislative area and that is why there was no progress. What happened in Argentina is the product of a struggle years of many feminists, and there are also parliaments that have been changing their minds because women have been incorporated into politics. “

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The executive director of the Chile Unido Foundation, Veronica Hoffmann, also entered the debate.

Veronica Hoffmann Verónica Hoffmann, Fundación Chile Unido.

“From the experience of 22 long years of our organization, we can verify that when pregnant women in vulnerable situations are welcomed, informed and accompanied, 77% of them continue with their pregnancy. Abortion does not solve the situation vulnerability that someone pregnant may be living in. What she is looking for is support and accompaniment, therefore our approach is that in Chile the Accompaniment Programs should be strengthened, so that every woman in our country can count on real and concrete due to their vulnerability. Every day, morning and afternoon and through more than one hundred volunteers throughout Chile, we leave a Comprehensive Accompaniment Program at the service of women to be with them with a multidisciplinary support network, which has allowed to date that more than 6,500 boys and girls have come to the world. Perhaps this could not happen, but today they are part of society. We participate in the Congress or in the discussion of the three causes, both in commissions of deputies and senators, and we always said that it was necessary to emphasize in the accompaniment programs, what we maintain. “

theses Theses.

And the members of the Chilean collective Theses (The artists Dafne Valdés, Sibila Sotomayor, Paula Cometa and Lea Cáceres, natives of Valparaíso and feminist icons of Latin America) said that “the legalization of abortion in Argentina is a historic moment. Abortion must be legal and free now throughout the country. region and this sets a precedent for all the other countries in the region where women do not have the right to decide. What happened in Argentina is the result of an organization and resistance effort of their women. Their struggle will pass into the collective memory and we will It shows how terrible it is to fight for these rights in extremely conservative territories such as those of Latin America. Our Argentine colleagues are an example to follow, a reference and an inspiration for Chilean women, who we hope to have this right soon too. We are very happy to finish this year and start a new year a new right for women “.



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