Due to a controversy between "pro-life" groups and those who support legal abortion, Argentina's candidacy has been withdrawn from the IACHR

A few hours after a new demonstration to demand the right to legal abortion, safe and free, returns to the streets across the country, the government has decided to end the candidacy of the lawyer Alfredo Vítolo as the representative of Argentina to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), in the midst of a controversy that has pitted different positions to her figure in the debate about abortion.

The news was confirmed at Infobae by sources from the Secretariat for Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism.

Vítolo, a lawyer who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1985 and teaches constitutional law and human rights, was the person designated by the Government to represent Argentina at the IACHR, the body of the United Nations States. Americans (OAS) responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Americas.

In the last hours, his candidacy was a reason for controversy and confrontation between the sectors as in 2018, they are again confronted with the right to abortion.

"The national government, which had proposed to Alfredo Vítolo to be a candidate for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, is under pressure from abortion groups and LGTB to reduce their own candidacy. The Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches of the Argentine Republic (ACIERA), the ProVida Unit and the Federal Front for Life and Family, as well as other civil society organizations, professionals and lawyers, repudiate this discriminatory and unacceptable interference with decisions of the executive power, "said in a statement issued over the past few hours a group of badociations calling themselves" pro-life ".

These groups argue that the executive was "in a hurry" to withdraw the appointment of the lawyer by "representatives of the Campaign for the Right to Safe, Legal and Free Abortion and the Federation of LGTBs of Argentina", according to the text they disseminated.

"Mr. Vítolo, whose candidacy for a post of Argentine Commissioner to the IACHR has already been made public at the international level, A constitutional lawyer, he has an impeccable curriculum: UBA diploma, Harvard master's degree and extensive experience in public administration.. It is reasonable for a candidate for such a position to have a clear position on the right to life and to abortion; and it is hoped that the representative of Argentina will not only reflect the spirit of the National Constitution, existing international laws and treaties that protect the human right to life from conception, "the organizations added.

At the same time, various groups in favor of the right to legal, safe and free abortion in recent days have expressed their concern about the possible appointment of Vítolo for the post at the IACHR.

"I recommend to the Senate to reject this project so that, later on, we can all work together in a pro-active pro-life project," he told the plenary of the health, health and safety committees. justice and criminal cases that have debated the issue.