Se Debe Legalizar El Aborto En Peru

Last month, Colombia became the fifth in Latin America to decriminalize abortion, and one of the most flexible in time to implement it. According to estimates by civil society groups, about 370,000 secret abortions are performed each year in Peru. “This decision-making capacity does not exist to the extent that abortion in these cases, even with symbolic punishments, is a prohibited behavior that turns women into criminals,” he said. EFE Lima (AFP) – The decriminalization of abortion is back on the table in Peru after Women`s Minister Diana Miloslavich spoke Wednesday, triggering strong criticism of the episcopate. Lima, 10. Leftist lawmaker Ruth Luque on Friday introduced a bill in Congress to decriminalize abortion for sexual rape in Peru, where abortion is only legal when there is a risk to a woman`s health or life. “There is no situation, no objective reason or no human difficulty that allows you to kill an innocent person. One evil (rape) is not fought with another evil (abortion),” the Peruvian bishops` conference said in a statement. Miloslavich said Monday in an interview with a local television station: “I continue to bet that abortion will eventually be free, free and safe in Peru.” To reopen the debate, the feminist organization Promsex presented the book “The Constitutionality of Rape Abortion: A Case in Abeyance”. “The polls have said that there is an openness of citizens in favor of decriminalizing abortion for rape,” he added, so he said he hoped “that this Congress can get the votes to decriminalize it for rape. I think that`s the least we can do for our pregnant daughters and teenage girls. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for making it as easy as possible for women to access voluntary abortion, noting that the restrictions do not reduce the number of abortions, but increase the risks.

The last such legislative initiative was presented in 2016 and aimed to decriminalise abortion not only in cases of pregnancy as a result of sexual rape, but also©artificial insemination or non-consensual egg transfer, but the proposal was shelved and not even discussed in plenary. Peru, a very conservative country with a predominantly Catholic denomination, is among the Latin American countries where abortion is still criminalized. A study conducted in July this year ± by polling institute Ipsos found that 53% of Peruvians think abortion should be allowed in all circumstances (15%) or certain (39%). Pedro Castillo, a left-wing rural teacher who took office last July, is nevertheless conservative on social issues: he opposes abortion and defends the idea of a traditional family composed of one man and one woman. In particular, the bill proposes to amend article 119 of the Penal Code so that abortion based on rape is considered a punishable abortion, just like therapeutic© abortion, which has been legal in Peru since 1924 only in cases where the health or life of the mother is in danger and the pregnancy does© not exceed 22 weeks. Abortion is illegal in Peru unless the mother`s life is in danger. In these cases, it is allowed before the 22nd week of pregnancy under severe restrictions. “All cases of births of children under the age of 14 ± are the result of sexual rape in accordance with our legislation,” said Melã± © Ndez, who added that if the norm on abortion is not changed, the Peruvian state will continue to be “complicit in a serious violation of human rights.” “We want to legislate for women, guarantee and take care of their bodies and make them decide (…) and I hope that later we can talk about free and safe abortion,” Luque of the United for Peru party told reporters at the congress gates, surrounded by countries of Green ± and representatives of feminist organizations.

The publication insists that the decriminalization of abortion during the last legislature© implies that “the state gives back to women one of their fundamental rights: their right to decide, according to their personal life project, whether or not to become mothers in the circumstances mentioned.” “This is a historic initiative for women. It is time to do it ± now,” said Liz Melãndez©, Executive Director of Flora Tristan, who recalled that “according to human rights standards, a violation is understood as a form of torture, and forcing women and children to continue a forced pregnancy resulting from this crime is a way to prolong this suffering.” According to him, this legislative initiative was signed by 22 parliamentarians from the left and the center of the political scale, the proposal of Together for Peru having been joined by members of the Congress of Popular Action, Free Peru, the Alliance for Progress and the Purple Party. During the presentation of the law, symbolically given on the occasion of Human Rights Day, other members of Congress and speakers from several groups defending women`s sexual and reproductive rights, including Promsex, Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir and Flora Tristán. They all welcomed the legislative proposal and reaffirmed their determination to end the “affront to dignity”, which involves restricting women`s right to decide on their lives. Melãndez©mentioned the “really frightening” figures that show the urgency of approving this measure in a country that ± 24 births in children under 10 and 1,155 births ±in children under 14 in 2020, and has already reported 7 births in children under 10 and 1,135 births in children under 14 so far in 2021. In fact, another Datum report in 2018 pointed out that 64% of the population was in favor of decriminalizing sexual rape. The episcopate “stands in solidarity with women who have been victims of rape,” but warned that “the original value of life is clearly enshrined in our constitution,” so that “the defense of life (…) from the moment of conception. Argentina allows it until week 14 and Mexico it is allowed up to 12 weeks in some states of the country.