The Justice Commission meets this January 14 from 09:30 to receive doctors, scientists and experts on the subject before approving the report
The Justice Commission expects to review the term of up to seven months of gestation for voluntary interruption of pregnancy for women over 18 years of age, and without term for girls, adolescents under 18 years of age and women with disabilities.
For this, it will receive in a general commission professionals and experts from the technical and scientific evidence to present their contributions and observations to the critical point of the bill that guarantees the voluntary interruption of pregnancy of girls, adolescents and women in case of rape.
The table is convened for this January 14 at 09:30, and according to its president, Alejandro Jaramillo (ID), the project under debate is not written in stone and can be modified until Monday, which is the deadline set by the assembly members. to present the report for the knowledge of the plenary.
The inclusion of a term of up to seven months of gestation to be able to interrupt a pregnancy due to rape split the legislative caucuses and they anticipate a dispersed vote, which makes it difficult to gather at least 70 votes in favor of this text.
There would be no votes for the interruption of pregnancy due to rape to be allowed up to seven months of gestation. Here first positions in benches
Criticism of the text raised from correismo through assemblyman José Agualsaca received criticism from the same caucus to which it belongs, social sectors and pro-life groups.
Jaramillo clarified that the report of the commission he chairs is not binding and in fact is not written in stone and the plenary session will be the one that finally pronounces.
He explained that his vote was against the proposal of legislator Segundo Chimbo (PK), who proposed a term of up to twelve weeks for the interruption of pregnancy due to rape, because the same appearances by experts, doctors, lawyers and specialists indicated that the majority of Part of the girls and Amazon women realize that they are pregnant after the first trimester of pregnancy. And to attend to these cases, he decided to support the proposal that plated the interruption up to seven months of gestation, he noted.
His co-idea Wilma Andrade considered that the proposal of 28 weeks to interrupt a pregnancy is absurd and radical, and the only thing it does is liquidate the possibility of an approval in the National Assembly, and with this the fundamental objective is lost, which is to have a law that decriminalizes abortion and that women are not re-victimized.
He indicated that the position of legislators Alejandro Jaramillo and Johanna Moreira to support the motion of up to 28 weeks to interrupt the pregnancy was rejected by the block and has divided the bench. “I am a mother and you cannot tell me seven months, please,” she claimed.
He said that the two legislators and the Justice Commission did not measure the consequences, they have managed without a clear objective, because it liquidates the entire struggle of women for the decriminalization of abortion, because it has led to the division of the blocs and even of some legislators who were adamant in supporting decriminalization.
The issue of the interruption of abortion due to rape breaks waters in society and not only in the different political forces, and the caucus of the Citizen Revolution is no exception, said Assemblyman Juan Lloret.
This political sector considers that the criteria of the medical professionals who can give their version on the subject must be received, therefore, it goes through a debate of a technical nature rather than a political one, and on the side of the correísta bench there will be the opening to assume those criteria that can better guide the drafting of the law, he added.
The bench resolved that each legislator will have freedom based on conscientious objection so that they can present their criteria individually, since there will not be a homogeneous vote, anticipated Lloret, who personally does not close the possibility of reducing the term to guarantee termination of pregnancy due to rape.
The National Agreement Bank (BAN), according to the legislator Nathalie Arias, the proposal for a term of 28 weeks for the interruption of pregnancy due to rape ignores the mandate of the Constitutional Court.
He specified that there is a technical criterion to establish a maximum period of 12 weeks for children under 14 years of age and 6 for those over 14 years of age, considering that any medical procedure that exceeds that time would entail greater risks for women.
From the side of the Pachakutik bloc there is also a division and there is still no resolution on the issue. But one of its delegates to the Justice Commission presented a minority report on the project under discussion.
The national legislator Ricardo Vanegas stated that the procedure of voluntary interruption of pregnancy in case of rape can be carried out up to six weeks of gestation for women over 18 years of age and up to 12 weeks of gestation for girls, adolescents under 18 years of age, women of rurality and women with disabilities. This report has the support of Assembly members Sofía Espín (UNES) and Dalton Bacigalupo (ID). (I)
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