The new legal abortion project | The init …

The National Campaign for the Right to Abortion already has a new project. The text, with some modifications compared to the one presented a year ago in the Chamber of Deputies, was approved over the weekend at a plenary badembly held at the Faculty of Psychology of the United States. National University of Córdoba, attended by 190 representatives. the provinces. The initiative will return to Congress in April. This will be the eighth time that it presents itself.

Victoria Tesoriero, Catholics for the right to decide, explained to PáginaI12 that the project resulted from more than four months of work in a drafting committee and included the exercise of democratic participation to territorial discussions throughout the country and to the contributions of the different regions that make up the campaign. "As part of the elections to be held in 2019, candidates are required to rule on voluntary abortion legislation," said the campaign in a statement released Sunday. Although the new project was not revealed, this journal was able to familiarize itself with some of the changes made during the consultation of the various participants in the plenary.

The initiative decriminalizes and legalizes voluntary abortion (IVE) until week 14 and beyond, when the life or health of the woman is in danger and in case of rape. In these cases, it must be guaranteed in the health system, public works, private and social. The benefits must be included in the mandatory medical plan. The novelty is that "serious fetal malformations" have been eliminated as a cause, following the interrogation of organizations that work for the rights of persons with disabilities. Nor did they incorporate the formula agreed by the deputies, which decriminalized and legalized abortion in cases of fetuses incompatible with an ectopic life.

Depending on the campaign project, IVE practice must be guaranteed within five days.

Like the previous project, it does not criminalize women who undergo or practice an abortion beyond the 14-week period and established causes. The proposal of the editorial board included a penalty for doctors who practice an IVE after week 14 without cause. But most of the regional campaigns have asked to delete this point. That is to say that the text finally proposes a total decriminalization: this means that under no circumstances can health workers be criminalized unless it is practiced without the consent of the woman or woman. pregnant person.

The project which obtained a half-sanction of the deputies replaced Article 88 of the Penal Code by the following text, which provided for a reduction of the sentence fixed in 1921: "The woman will be repressed with a prison sentence of three ( 3) months to one (1) year or a pregnant person who causes his own abortion or consents that someone else does so when it has been practiced from the fifteenth week of the procedure pregnancy and that it does not act as a mediator in the cases provided for in article 86 of this Code.The woman or the pregnant person is not punishable.The judge may order the suspension of punishment pending the reasons that prompted the woman or the pregnant person to commit the crime, his subsequent attitude, the nature of the event and the badessment of other circumstances that may prove the inconvenience to apply deprivation of liberty in this case. "This art icle has been completely removed.

Regarding the penalty imposed on doctors or having practiced abortion, the project approved by the deputies introduced amendments to Article 85 of the Penal Code, reducing the penalty when the practice was with the consent of the woman, without however eliminating it. The wording relating to this hypothesis was as follows: "Whoever provokes an abortion will be punished (…) with imprisonment of three (3) months to one (1) year if it will work with the consent of the woman or the pregnant woman and abortion be produced from the fifteenth week of gestation, provided that the badumptions set forth in Article 86 of this Code do not mediate. "As stated herein Above, the new project decriminalizes totally the intervention of the doctors when they act with consent.

The new project of the campaign also incorporates the definition of "pregnant person", as well as the text that was voted by the deputies. But in establishing the field of law enforcement, he even speaks of "any woman or other identity capable of gestering".

It also includes "counseling" for those who request it when requesting an abortion, where they should receive objective and accurate information about the practice, and where they should also offer contraception. The text which obtained a half-sanction in the House of Representatives speaks of "council".

The campaign proposal also incorporates the intercultural dimension. In case the woman or the pregnant person wishing to abort speaks a different language, the presence of an interpreter must be guaranteed in order to ensure an effective communication in the respect of the interculturality, proposes the text .

The new project says nothing about conscientious objection.

In acting minors under the age of 13, it is established that they must compulsorily give their informed consent with the badistance of at least one of their parents or legal representative. they need an abortion. In the case of teenagers aged 13 to 16, it is presumed that they have sufficient maturity to give the required consent. But the campaign proposal adds that when integrity or life is at stake, because of a pre-existing condition, at least one of its parents must accompany its consent (in accordance with the law). 39, Article 26, paragraph 5 of the National Civil and Commercial Code).

The campaign in turn incorporates into its project – as it was done during the debate between deputies – a special chapter on integrated baduality education, highlighting the responsibility of the national, provincial and municipal governments of the United States. apply and strengthen it.

For its elaboration, the commission of drafting of the campaign first elaborated a project taking into account the discussion in the Congress. After intense exchanges and with the suggestions sent by the regional of the different provinces, the new project was approved, which was voted yesterday in Cordoba.

It is however not excluded that a change is added yet.

The project submission date is not defined. It would be next month. And a mobilization in Congress of green scarves would be convened for this day.

This will be the eighth time that the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion presents its project to the Chamber of Deputies. It has not yet been defined who or who will be the legislators who lead the initiative with their signatures.

The editorial board was made up of representatives from different regions of the country and from different organizations, including Marta Alanis, Silvia Augsburger, María Elena Barbagelata, Nina Brugo, Analía Bruno, Alicia Cacopardo, Carolina Comaleras, Maria Julia Constant, Soledad Deza, Mabel Gabarra, Mariana Hellín, Silvia Juliá, Paula Lo Cane, Celeste Mac Dougall, Stella Maria Manzano, Pamela Martín Garcia, Julia Martino, Analia Mas, Monica Menini, Nelly Minyersky, Martha Rosenberg, Victoria Tesoriero, Ruth Zurbriggen and Cristina Zurutuza.