Beilin ended in prison after he was subjected to automatic abortion. Unaware she was pregnant, the 25 -year -old girl went to seek medical care at a hospital in the Northern Tokuan County in Argentina when she had had abdominal pain.
According to strict legislation to combat abortion in Argentina, Beilin (not her real name) was reported by the hospital to the authorities and was sentenced to eight years in prison for murder. Its freedom was not restored until nearly three years, in 2017, after a female lawyer was persuaded by the Supreme Court in Tukumin to condemn her.
“There are many bilin in Argentina “This madness will continue until the abortion is legalized,” said Anna Korea, a pro -abortion rights activist and author of “Sumos Pilin” (We Pilin).
The long -awaited moment may be about to reach.
Argentina is expected to move within one step to become the first major country in Latin America to codify abortion on Thursday, when the House of Representatives votes in Congress on a draft law for legal abortion under the auspices of President Alberto Fernandez. The president holds a majority in the House of Representatives, and a government source said that the Senate can vote on the transition to the law as soon as next week.
Pressure for reform in Argentina is part of the “green wave” in support of the choice, sweeping Latin America, to which the green handkerchief symbolizes the flag immediately known to the campaign throughout the region.
“Argentine women are now enjoying all Latin America, as the green handkerchief is raised from north to south,” said Claudia Beniero, the Argentine author who spent years in legal abortion campaigns.
The lack of legal abortion has condemned millions of teenagers throughout the region to pregnancy unwanted pregnancy to the time. In Argentina alone, more than 7,000 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 were delivered in 2016-2018, often the result of rape, according to a recent report on reaching Argentina safely miscarriage network.
“We will prevent us from using this law as birth machines and allow us to treat us as human beings who are entitled to decide on our bodies and destiny,” said Gabriella Capson Camara, an Argentine intellectual, author and author.
It is still undergoing a punishable law in all parts of Latin America, as the strong influence of the Catholic Church helped keep abortion illegal in most countries. As in the Beilin case, many women end in prison to ask for medical help after automatic abortion.
Abortion is completely prohibited in El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras, while exceptions are made in rape or to save a woman’s life in other countries such as Brazil or Chile.
In Latin America, abortion is only legal in Cuba and Uruguay, and both small countries where the Catholic Church has a lower effect. Optional abortion is also legal in some of the judicial states of Mexico, as well as in the state of Joyana in South America and the French Ministry of Guyana abroad.
The change in the law in Argentina, the parent country of Pope Francis, will send a loud signal in an area where the demand for legal abortion continues to grow.
Losses on Argentine women are horrific. Nearly 40,000 women were accepted in public hospitals for complications arising from illegal abortion operations in 2016 alone, according to a new report. From this acceptance, 6400 meets girls and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19.
At least 65 women died after being subjected to Backstreeet interventions in the three-year period 2016-18, about half of them in their twenties and only nine of them are teenagers.
At least 73 women, as well as doctors and nurses, have gone to prison or were detained under temporary detention for illegal abortion in Argentina since 2012, according to activists for abortion rights.
Two years ago, there was a previous attempt to give legitimacy to miscarriage He was rejected by the Senate After a 15 -hour marathon discussed, despite opinion polls that showed strong support for this step.
The Catholic Church pressed strongly against the legislation, and the 2018 draft law did not depend on the support of the president at the time, Mauricio Macri.
But the setback gave a new campaign for women’s activists in Argentina, and with the presence of the Coronavin virus in Achieving an electoral pledge 2019 To give legitimacy to miscarriage.
