Salta teenager exposed in the Senate for legal abortion

July 25, 2018 – 18:13
"They do not provide us with bad education or contraceptive methods," he said. He is part of the coordinator of high school students in Salta.

A 16-year-old teenager appeared before senators on Wednesday to demand punishment for the abortion law. Here is Milagro Peñalba, the coordinator of secondary students in Salta, who appeared in plenary and described the strong influence of the Church in his province

his hand-tied green handkerchief, Peñalba denounced the fact that in Salta "there is a large percentage of single mothers" and "every day a new case of badual abuse is known". "We want to leave without fear of the street but we can not, because Salta ranks second with the highest rate of femicide", she added. The student continues: "They do not provide us with Sexuality education or contraceptive methods, it judges us in the streets, we are expelled from schools and otherwise we are marginalized.But if we abort, they call us "killers."

Similarly, Peñalba warned that in his province "a quarter of pregnancies are teenage" and that "the true rector of bad education is the Church". religious education in schools and public clbades and private is suspended for religious celebrations. "

He noted that from the state and" this Church so cynically present "" girls "and teens" are forced to become and maternal ". "He does not seem to care about intra-family abuses in his province," he suggested

meanwhile, he argued that "abortion in case of rape is left to the good or bad will of the institutions of health "

" How is it that adults are afraid to make us love, not that we are forced to gestation and mother? "asked Peñalba," abortion legal is a right so necessary that it must unite us all. "

In the end, Peñalba warned that he" liked to speak with an inclusive language " though he preferred not to use it "for the present audience".

Before a question from Senator Pamela Verasay (UCR-Mendoza), told the teenager: "The only bad education I received was called" love education. ", and she was very hetero-normative, very macho.They recommended us as a contraceptive method that we do not have direct bad."