The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of Argentina will be invited to rule again on the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion). Indeed, the center-left president of the country, Alberto Fernandez, wishes to make this campaign promise a reality and announced, via a video on his Twitter account published on Tuesday, November 17, that the objective of this text is to guarantee “to all women have full access to health care “. Debates are scheduled to begin on November 30.
Argentina, though a pioneer in Latin America for having enacted laws on same-sex marriage and gender identity, still does not allow abortion, according to a law in force since the 1920s. Two years ago, in 2018, a text legalizing abortion had been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies but the Senate had subsequently rejected it.
The new text authorizes abortion “until the 14th week of pregnancy”. It provides for a “conscientious objection” for healthcare professionals refusing to practice it, but obliges them to “refer the patient to appropriate care”. “The criminalization of abortion has served no purpose. Disturbing figures show that each year some 38,000 women are hospitalized for complications from clandestine abortions, and since the return of democracy (in 1983), more than 3 000 died of it, ”recalled Alberto Fernandez. According to the government between 370,000 and 520,000 clandestine abortions are performed each year in the country.
Scenes of joy
The President of Argentina also submitted to the deputies a “Thousand Days Plan” which intends to “strengthen access to care during pregnancy and during the first years of a child’s life” for families in a situation of financial vulnerability . “We do not want a woman to think about having an abortion because of her inability to pay for the baby she wants to have”, recently declared Vilma Ibarra, the Secretary of State in charge of relations with the Parliament, who demanded to parliamentarians “a serious and responsible debate on this subject of public health”.
After his election, Alberto Fernandez pledged to present a bill on abortion at the start of the parliamentary session on March 1, but the pandemic of the new coronavirus had upset the legislative calendar. The president’s announcement sparked scenes of joy among the 1,000 supporters of the government who had gathered around Parliament to put pressure on the debates on the financing of the health system.
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