Argentina.President Alberto Fernández announces the legalization of abortion in Argentina
Demonstration: Thousands of people demand that abortion is legal in Argentina
Argentina advanced this Friday in the legalization of abortion, an attempt in which it failed two years ago, and which seems closer this time, after
20 hours of debates in the Chamber of Deputies followed by thousands and thousands of people
in the streets in a muggy summer night.
The bill was approved by 131 votes in favor and 117 against, a difference greater than in 2018. The Chamber of Senators will have, everything indicates that before the end of the year, the last word.
Two years ago the law was rejected in the body, much more conservative than the Chamber of Deputies.
This time it is believed that there is a greater chance that the law will succeed.
"It was a campaign promise and we feel that today we were heard
. Today we were able to take a step forward to end the clandestinity of abortion," said the government's Legal and Technical Secretary,
Vilma Ibarra
, the main person in charge of drafting the law.
The "greens", in favor of abortion, and the "celestial ones", against ", spent more than a day in the Plaza de los dos Congresos, in front of the national Parliament, following the debates.
In the end, the celebration, euphoric , it was from the greens.
End the death of women
Argentina contemplates the authorization of abortion in cases of rape and danger to the mother's health, although there are provinces that put obstacles in practice to this legal interruption of pregnancy.
The law of legal, safe and free abortion that the Senate will debate was a promise of President Alberto Fernández during the electoral campaign and
seeks to end the constant death of women due to clandestine abortions.
If two years ago,
Mauricio Macri
enabled the debate in Parliament on the legalization of abortion, something that had not happened until then, this time the Government showed greater determination and sent its own bill.
"The government still does not have the necessary votes to approve the law in the Senate,"
the TN news channel said on Friday.
"The political decision is not to start the debate in the Senate until there is certainty that the law will be approved."
Rejection of Pope Francis
Among those working for the Senate to reject the law is Pope Francis, who believes that it is not a "religious issue" and that it is "morally unacceptable to eliminate a life to solve a problem."
Francisco maintains important ties with the politics of his country
, which he did not tread again since he was elected in the Vatican seven years ago.
Argentine deputies were free to decide their vote, which led to unthinkable coincidences in other fields between representatives of the Government and the opposition, both in favor and against the project.
The numbers are so tight in the Senate that it is believed that there could be a tie situation in which Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, vice president of the Nation and president of the Upper House, must define.
Kirchner, who in his eight years of government did not promote the treatment of the issue, said that
his daughter Florencia made him change his historical position against
the legalization of abortion.
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