The Brazilian Senate goes through the total ban of …

The Senate of Brazil yesterday approved by majority the treatment of a project banning abortion for all causes, in accordance with the opinion of the far-right president and evangelist Jair Bolsonaro on the women's right to decide on their own body. The initiative, developed since 2015, was developed by an evangelical pastor, Senator Magno Malta, but bailed out by a lawmaker who had expressed support for the former reserve captain during the presidential campaign.

The project in question, which will be the subject of a debate in the Upper House in the coming weeks, is a proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC). It must therefore be submitted to the vote of the Congress. This initiative eliminates the possibility of voluntarily terminating the pregnancy during the first 12 weeks when the woman is badually abused, if there is a risk to the mother's life or if the baby does not get pregnant. has no brain, factors considered legal nowadays. perform abortions.

The project recovered by Senator Podemos, Eduardo Girão, aims to guarantee "the inviolability of life from conception". Girão denied that her goal was to make the abortion of women even more difficult, even if the project would imply a reduction of the rights concretely. He and other senators who supported the measure justified the idea that the Senate should define the terms of the law, without "interference" from the Federal Supreme Court.

The president himself clarified his position on the issue, before and after the election campaign. Bolsonaro signed in October an agreement with the Catholic Church "for the defense of the family, for the defense of the innocence of children in school, against abortion and for legalization drugs".

Her controversial Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves, also shares the same convictions against women's rights. Rightly, Alves worked until the end of 2018 as an advisor to Magno Malta, the project's author.

The pastoral alves also ensured baduming that its purpose was to approve the Statute of the Unborn, which provides for increasing the prison terms for abortion to 10 years of effective imprisonment. In addition, the minister defends the creation of a "scholarship" for raped women who decide not to interrupt their pregnancy. She is known for her rejection of the LGTBI community, because the first thing she said as a leader was to ask "the kids to wear the blue again and the girls to wear the rose".