In Argentina, women’s right to abortion is at risk as President Javier Milei’s party has presented a bill to repeal the law.
The project seeks to repeal the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (IVE) law and calls for abortions to be punishable by up to three years in prison for women who undergo the procedure.
The project also proposes making abortion a criminal offense for those professionals who help a woman terminate a pregnancy and seeks to impose prison sentences of between one and four years on them.
The text does not provide for relief in cases of rape, but leaves it to the judge’s discretion to provide an exception to the sentence for the woman, “taking into account the reasons that led her to commit the offense, her subsequent attitude and the… “Type of crime, “the fact”.
Lawmakers say they also want to eliminate the cause of pregnancy resulting from rape “because they understand that this has been systematically interpreted as a justification for the practice.”
An abortion can only be carried out if an immediate danger to the mother’s life is to be averted, “as long as the danger cannot be averted in any other way”.
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The day Argentina celebrated by legalizing abortion
In December 2020, hundreds of women celebrated outside Congress in Buenos Aires when the Senate passed a bill to legalize abortion.
This is the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (IVE) law, which allows abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy and obliges health facilities to perform them if necessary, even if one of their doctors objects. Consciousness.
At this point the vote continued until the early hours of the morning and in the end there were 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention. Hundreds of thousands of fearful women waited in the streets, led by various feminist movements.
In doing so, Argentina joined Uruguay, Cuba, Guyana, French Guiana, Puerto Rico and some areas of Mexico where women are currently allowed to seek an abortion.
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