The government of Argentinachaired by the ultraliberal Javier MileiHe decided “redesign” the National Plan for the Prevention of Unintentional Pregnancy in Adolescents (ENIA Plan), ending the contracts of 619 consultants associated with it.
“It (the ENIA Plan) is not closed, nor is it dismantled, nor is it cut back. Is ordered”, The Ministry of Health of the South American country emphasized in the last few hours in a message published on the social network “closure”, “dismantling”” either “cutout” of the plan.
The ENIA Plan was implemented in 2018, during the presidency of the conservative Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), and continued to be in force during the mandate of the Peronist Alberto Fernández (2019-2023).
Until March of last year, the prevention plan had reduced the adolescent fertility rate in the South American country by more than ten points, according to official data from the Ministry of Health, collected on the Argentine verification portal Chequeado.
This trend is a milestone in a country where the problem of teenage pregnancies, mostly unintentional and occurring in the most marginal areas of Argentina, had remained above the average for the Latin American region between 1950 and 2015, according to a report. joint effort of the NGO Cipppec, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The “redefinition of powers between the Nation and the provinces” undertaken by the current Government within the framework of the changes in the ENIA Plan would mean savings of 1.15 billion pesos (US$ 1.29 million), according to the Ministry of Health.
“If the provinces want to continue with the aforementioned contracts, they may do so under their own evaluation and solvency,” the ministry stated in a statement.
In its first months in office, the Milei Executive has several times opened the door to once again criminalizing abortion in Argentina, legal in Argentina since 2020, after a long political process and amid intense mobilizations by the country’s feminist movements.
Last February, Rocío Bonacci, legislator from La Libertad Avanza (LLA), the far-right political force led by Milei, presented a bill to repeal the law on voluntary interruption of pregnancy and incorporate penalties of up to three years in prison for women. women who abort.
For his part, the Argentine president has come to describe abortion as “murder aggravated by bond”but his team recognizes that his repeal “It is not part of their immediate agenda.”
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Source: Gestion
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