🇦🇷🏴🤝👶 — 📰 O Globo: Milei's party presents a project to criminalize abortion in Argentina again

➡️ Javier Milei's party, The Liberty Advances, presented a project to the Argentine Congress to overturn the law that legalized abortion in the country in 2020. The text was made official on Monday, but its content was only revealed on Wednesday night, one day after the government suffered a harsh defeat in the Legislature, when it saw its "Bus Law" return to square one in the Chamber.

➡️ The project argues that Law 27,610, of 2020, which deals with the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, be abandoned, and that the previous rules be resumed. The current legislation was approved after intense debates and pressure from the streets, and was enacted on January 14, 2021, authorizing the procedure to be carried out up to the 14th week of pregnancy, within ten days after the official request to the health service, at no cost to the patient.

➡️ Under the new project, a woman who performs an abortion on her own or "consents to someone else performing it" may be punished with up to three years in prison — under the law prior to 2020, abortion was permitted in cases of risk to the health of the woman. mother or rape, but the text presented by Milei's party signals that the final decision will be in the hands of the courts.

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