Deputies divided as abortion bill moves in Congress

Deputy Martín Sabatella came on stage to support yesterday’s Congressional Criminal Law Committee approval to a preliminary resolution to allow for a 12-week upper-limit abortion bill to move to the next stage, but the controversy is on as other lawmakers stand totally against it.

“The main difference between legalizing the abortion and not doing it is that if legalized, all women from the poorest sectors would be able to do the same than those middle or high class women without risking their lives.” 

Sabatella also concluded that “we still have a pending debt with the 3,000 women that are believed to have died because of illegal abortions since the resume of democracy in 1983, and with the 500,000 women that risk their lives by undergoing illegal abortions every year.”

After the congressional pass, Coalition Civic Lawmaker, Fernanda Gil Lozano, told reporters that abortion bill “does not force individuals to go against their will and do something they don’t want to do. We are just trying to grant a right. We have taken a first step yesterday, so we are on right track in order to get the bill passed.”

Meanwhile, Deputy Cinthia Hotton (Values for my Country party), showed full rejection to the project as she stated “The only way one can interrupt a pregnancy is by killing the child inside the mother. Here is a conflict between two rights. I’d love that all women can decide freely about their pregnancies, but what’s on risk is the baby’s life.”

Furthermore, Hotton remarked that “Our party defends the rights of the most weak, in this case the rights of the child that is about to be born.”

“We must look for some other type of solutions. I haven’t heard anyone discussing the possibility of giving an unwanted child into adoption.”

To end, Hotton praised President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s rejection to the decriminalization or legalization of abortion in the country.