The final wording of article 19 of the bill that guarantees the voluntary interruption of pregnancy due to rape caused friction within the Democratic Left (ID) caucus, at least two assembly members do not rule out leaving the party.
They are Alejandro Jaramillo and Johanna Moreira, ID delegates to the Justice Commission, which analyzed and prepared the report on the bill that guarantees the interruption of pregnancy for girls, adolescents, and women in the event of rape, and who initially voted for a text in which it was proposed that there would be no term for the interruption in the case of girls and adolescents, instead, for women over 18 years of age it could be practiced up to seven months of gestation.
Later, the two legislators changed their position together with UNES assembly members and presented a report so that the interruption of pregnancy can take place up to 22 weeks in the case of girls and adolescents and up to 20 weeks for women over 18 years of age.
ID proposal on terms in abortion for rape, with little reception in legislative caucuses
Within the block there are three positions on the subject. A group of legislators, which has the support of the leadership of the ID, proposes dividing the terms for the interruption of pregnancy due to rape into three groups: the first, girls up to 14 years of age, up to 20 weeks of gestation; adolescents between 14 and 18 years of age, up to 18 weeks of gestation; and, for women over 18 years of age, abortion for rape could be given up to 16 weeks.
In the ranks there are also two legislators who asked to be freed from partisan discipline on this issue. Dalton Bacigalupo supported the minority report that proposes 12 weeks of gestation as the maximum term for termination of pregnancy.
Assembly members Jaramillo and Moreira hope to present this Friday, February 11, a third proposal in the wording of article 19, which establishes that in order to guarantee a free and voluntary decision to interrupt the pregnancy, the term to do so will be up to 16 weeks of gestation.
That exceptionally, considering special characteristics and that deserve priority attention by the State, when dealing with girls, adolescents, women from rural areas, towns and nationalities, the voluntary interruption of pregnancy may be carried out up to 18 weeks of gestation.
And due to the special condition of people with mental disabilities who are victims of rape, the provisions of the Clinical Practice Guide called ‘Therapeutic abortion care’, issued by the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador, will be observed.
Legislator Alejandro Jaramillo commented that he is thinking of leaving the party, since he said that contradictions still persist within the political organization, and announced that there are several colleagues who are upset by the position of the leadership regarding the project of the interruption of pregnancy due to rape. .
He revealed that there is a leader from Chimborazo who claimed that she was blocked on social networks by former presidential candidate Xavier Hervas, for which Jaramillo called on the leaders of the organization and presented his solidarity with the legislator Johanna Moreira, as he assured that he is a victim of attacks.
The second vice president of Parliament and ID legislator, Yeseña Guamaní, stated that the decision to disaffiliate from a party is personal and legitimate for the legislators; she considered that the differences began in the ID when the report included 28 weeks of gestation as the term for abortion due to rape. “We do not agree on that, and that caused a division of positions and here the impositions do not work,” she stressed. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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