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Provincial criminal defense workers, defenders, prosecutors and lawyers will make a public pronouncement in favor of the proposed voluntary termination of pregnancy, which received a half-sanction in the Chamber of Deputies. They will do so next Tuesday, in the pañuelazo for legal, safe and free abortion to be held at the door of the new Criminal Justice Center.
"Legal abortion is the way to ensure the equality and health protection of them (sic) most vulnerable," said the statement that began this week circulating in the corridors of the new judicial building of Sarmiento to 2800, inviting the "judicial pañuelazo" to support the project that was presented to the Senate two weeks ago. 19659002] The movement came from a group of employees of the provincial public service of criminal defense, mobilized by the debate in Congress. Quickly, the call reached other court workers, advocates, prosecutors and lawyers, who will be added Tuesday to the photo with green tissues strung up.
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Counselors who promoted statements of support for the project of termination of pregnancy, such as Norma Lopez, Marina Magnani, Celeste Lepratti, Caren Tepp, Fernanda Gigliani and Veronica Irizar will also participate in the call. And, also, members of the National Campaign for Legal, Safe and Free Abortion.
"It's a broad and public call that, although it emanates from the judiciary, claims to be open," explained one of the movement's organizers. who asked not to be mentioned, "since it is a proposal from a group of people, workers and trainees, who l & rsquo; Armed at the bottom ", even to excite the judicial authorities.
clarified the same source, this is not an official act or an institutional statement. "It is a pañuelazo, as has been done in many workplaces, because we believe that it is important to state the position of many judicial employees", with the symbol added by the Criminal Justice Center as a backdrop for the photo.
"Although the judiciary generally does not make public pronouncements on these issues, we believe that the place we belong to can not remain indifferent to this debate, since decriminalization makes abortion a public health problem. and protecting the most vulnerable sector of the population. the population, to whom the task of public defense is directed. "
With antecedents
The appeal to the" judicial pañuelazo "has a close antecedent.The board of directors of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos was pronounced in favor of the project of voluntary termination of pregnancy.
The statement was made public last Tuesday, after a group of lawyers, who collected 1800 signatures, submit to the Senate a request for Unconstitutionality to block the treatment of legal abortion, arguing that it has "serious legal loopholes."
For academics, criminalization "far from reducing the number of abortions "leads to the clandestinity and" forced "to terminate pregnancies in a dangerous way, reproducing inequalities in terms of gender and clbad."
Faculty directors expressed "in favor of its decriminalization and legalization, in the extent that this tr the subject to the field of health. public and the responsibility of the state as guarantor of rights. "
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