The Spanish newspaper “El Diario” said that the number of women victims of clandestine abortions increased dramatically in the previous months during the Corona crisis, due to unsafe and unstable abortions, especially in Argentina, which witnessed the death of at least two women, and three others were arrested because of those operations. Legality.
The Spanish newspaper indicated that Argentina and Colombia occupy the first places in the number of deaths of women due to abortion, due to the criminalization of abortion in those countries, so Argentina was supposed to witness in early March the presentation of the bill promised by Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, especially in the current situation, it continues. Argentine women who wish to interrupt their pregnancy put their lives at risk.
And according to the latest report issued by the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), Between 460,000 and 600,000 clandestine abortions are performed in Argentina annually.
The newspaper believes that the enactment of new laws to decriminalize abortion in Latin America will greatly help in eliminating illegal abortion, or the so-called clandestine abortion.
In Argentina, for example, a 31-year-old woman in the province of Buenos Aires died after an unsafe abortion, after the law regulating abortion was introduced in the Congress of the South American country, and Cecilia Carraguesian, a member of the Network of Professionals and General Practitioners, explained that the young woman had arrived To hospital due to an infectious disease of the womb, called Mondor syndrome, “caused by infections.
“There is no need to hide or cover more deaths,” Karaguisian said, noting that the woman had three children and had scarce economic resources. In addition, he found that his home was near a health center, and she decided to undergo a secret abortion, which led to Her death.
Thousands of activists in support of the right to abortion gathered in front of the headquarters of the Argentine National Congress in the capital, Buenos Aires, where legislation was passed criminalizing the abortion process.
Last year, the deputies approved the text of the abortion legalization law, but the Senate rejected it, and since then, pro-abortion rallies and campaigns have been organizing to pressure candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for late next October.
The bill, which was approved by the deputies and rejected by the sheikhs, provided for the punishment of imprisonment for a period ranging between three months and one year for officials in health institutions or doctors who “unjustifiably postpone,” or refuse to perform the elective abortion or refuse it, in accordance with the provisions of the law .
The Colombian example is another example, and expert Aura Artiaja says that “abortion in Colombia is one of the great and serious crimes, as the Constitutional Court in Colombia has not legalized abortion, and there are more than 400 thousand clandestine abortions in the country, compared to 17 thousand legal abortions.”
The newspaper pointed out that the economic crisis is one of the main reasons for the high demand for abortion, due to the lack of funds needed to raise children.
The Spanish newspaper concluded its report on the importance of imposing new laws that legalize abortion in order to end this crisis, especially since there are countries in Latin America, headed by Argentina and Colombia, that do not legalize abortion except because of deformation of the fetus.
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