With the participation of 19 lawyers and specialists, the plenary of the Women’s Banking, Justice and Criminal Affairs, and Health Commissions of the Senate began this Tuesday with the rounds of exhibitions on the abortion legalization project, with half-sanction of Deputies . The most cited moment was the one that starred the anti-abortion right specialist Edgardo Young, who confused the 1000 days initiative with the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
The debate will continue throughout this Wednesday and Thursday morning with new presentations, while in the afternoon an opinion will be signed, with the intention of meeting next Tuesday 29.
One of the most forceful presentations was that of Paula Litvachky, executive director of Cels, who produced a report on the number of criminal cases against women that exist throughout the country. “The criminal illusion of imposing a single morality goes a long way but never contributes to egalitarian collective constructions. Today, with this policy, the State persecutes and forsakes, this is the true project of discarding, the effects of criminalization,” he warned.
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Also speaking in the morning were Gala Díaz Langou, director of Social Protection at CIPPEC; María Elena Critto, a sociologist specializing in health issues; Alberto Bianchi, criminal lawyer; and Luciana Sánchez, criminal lawyer in the Diana Sacayán case, who argued: “When abortion is prohibited, the circulation of ideas is also prohibited and this is done only to people with the ability to gestate and to women. It is considered that we should not have right to certain types of knowledge “.
In addition, the jurist doctor in law, Aída Kemelmajer, spoke: “There is a norm that says that life is protected from conception but in addition to that norm, other and other legal principles support the right of every person not to be exploited when carrying out their own life project, “he said.
The most disruptive moment of the plenary came with the first speaker of the second section, Edgardo Young, member of the National Academy of Medicine and specialist in assisted fertilization, who spoke out against the right of pregnant people to abort, and identified the concept of life with that of person, an argumentative strategy repeated within the senators and anti-abortion right exhibitors.
“They put a date of a thousand days and I never understood and no one explained to me why the thousand days are,” said the fertility specialist when he confused the two projects under debate, that of economic and social support for pregnant people who decide to carry out a pregnancy and the voluntary interruption of pregnancy project.
On his personal website, Young presents himself as “received as a Doctor and a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires and subsequently accredited as a specialist in Gynecology at the same University.” And he continues with his curriculum: “He completed his hospital residency at the University Hospital of Clinics of the University of Buenos Aires, where he was head of the Fertility Department from 1973 to 1985. From 1985 to date he directs the Institute of Gynecology and Fertility of Buenos Aires (IFER) and is president of the Argentine Foundation for the treatment of Sterility. He is also a Consultant Professor of Human Reproduction at the University of Buenos Aires ”.
Criticism rained down on social networks and his exposure was repeated on radio and television. So far, as Tiempo learned, no senator in favor of the continuation of clandestine abortion took charge of his call.
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