January 03, 2021
The issues of assisted reproduction, which involve new concepts related to parentage, seem to be highly complex for a government that does not even manage to understand that rights cannot be submitted to a plebiscite or public consultation.
Recent statements by the president Lopez Obrador, in the sense that he will organize a public consultation to decide on abortion, they translate that his initial position of avoiding the matter has not changed one iota. It is a ridiculous response since the issue contains a women’s right, but it has been so since her political campaign.
Additionally, we have many other things to regret from the moment progress is blocked in something so elementary, for example, assisted reproductive techniques require fertilization of ovules in the laboratory, the initial culture of the embryos and transfer to the inside the uterus of a woman or freezing them to be able to be used later. Gynecologists have used all this technology in Mexico for many years now, which translates into the birth of several tens of thousands of Mexicans, assisted reproduction products, and if we cannot even recognize the right of women to interrupt a pregnancy, much less can we expect a very urgent law to regulate assisted reproduction techniques to provide legal security to newborns and women who demand it.
Obviously, the possibility that a woman outside the couple can carry out a pregnancy by request is light years away from being discussed in Congress or in the circles of those who decide public policy. This is not a “liberal versus conservative” issue, in fact, conservatives will surely be secretly applauding the President for the boycott that has meant his stubbornness to make such puerile arguments.
Personally I expected a position open to debate and with a vocation for the progress of a government that defines itself as “progressive left” and not what I am seeing.
It seems that the President is determined to abandon thousands of women who continue to interrupt pregnancies, as well as thousands of couples who need assisted reproductive techniques to satisfy their intention to procreate.
Let’s say that since the President already had his children, because others do not worry him and, surely, the issue of infertility treatment must seem like a matter fifí, the bad news is that those who are not fifís they also want offspring.
It is clear to me that you can say against the presidential position, but it will never translate into a spirit of progress on the part of the government. Democracy is not only about allowing everyone to express themselves, it is taking into account different points of view from those held by the rulers.
Hopefully the 4T call understands. We are doing very badly on this issue, with no hope in sight for improvement.
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