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The Argentine Senate held today the last public hearings to hear specialists and members of civil society speak out for and against the legalization of abortion to be debated and voted in one week. plenary session of the Upper House.
For several weeks, scientists, human rights groups and members of civil society participated in the sessions, which took several minutes to discuss and answer questions. The dimension of torture that leads to forced maternity can be measured in the sense that this woman risks her own life in a clandestine and precarious abortion to avoid it "recalls Diana Maffía, Director of the Observatory on Gender in Justice of the Judicial Council of the City of Buenos Aires
For its part, Guadalupe Batallán, former student of the National College of Buenos Aires, said that this bill, which was approved in June by the Chamber of Deputies and would be definitively sanctioned if the Senate approves it on August 8 " destroys the principles the most important ethics of humanity and establishes the right to kill . "" Today must work to get out or this law or the best law that is but what can not be said & # 39; reject everything and follow everything as it is & # 39; "noted noted writer Claudia Piñeiro.
According to reports by local media, 34 lawmakers would give the "no" to this initiative, 32 would position themselves in favor, there is doubt in the opinion of four others and it is known that he there will be an abstention and an absence.
On Tuesday, the leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) in the Senate, Ángel Rozas, was one of the last He showed his position and announced that he would lean toward the "no".
" My decision does not respond to any kind of speculation but to convictions . I push this decision that the embryo is life ," said Rozas in statements to the Argentine newspaper Clarín.
Also today were inclined by the Peresist Senator Inés Imelda Blas the legislator María Belén Tapia Other senators, like the former President Carlos Menem (1989-1999) had already shown their rejection of the project.
On the other hand, among the lawmakers who have ruled in favor is the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015), Miguel Ángel Pichetto (of the justicialist party) and Gladys González (of the party in power).
In the case of equality on August 8, the final decision would be made by the Senate Speaker, Gabriela Michetti, who has already announced that she would also be against it.
Senators who are in favor of the initiative should meet this afternoon to study alternatives that will allow them to narrow the gap with the group who anticipate a negative vote
This Wednesday , the Health, Justice and Criminal Affairs and Constitutional Affairs Committees will give an opinion so that the project can be discussed in the forum on 8. EFE
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