translated from Spanish: Discussion on pregnancy termination, is not priority for AMLO

photograph/BBC CDMX-El President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the Coordinator of the caucus of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal, was called to the legislators and the public to not argue about amendments to the current legislation on the termination of pregnancy.
At National Palace, the head of the Federal Executive said that abortion is not a priority issue on the public agenda of the country.
“We should not open those discussions. We will compose the country”, said Lopez Obrador as to whether it would veto any attempt by the Senate to cancel the legal interruption of pregnancy.
On Thursday, during the Senate plenary session, legislators in Morena engaged is among them in a debate which ones called for nationwide legalization of the interruption of pregnancy approved until week 12 of gestation and others, as Lilly Téllez they posed to criminalize abortion.
To this, the Chairman of the Board of Senate policy coordination, Ricardo Monreal made it clear that the issue of the legal interruption of pregnancy is not a priority.
“It is an issue that is not a priority for us. There are more important things that we need to focus on the discussion and approval,”he said.
Monreal preferred not to express a position on abortion, saying that it is “a sensitive issue” and that it was seeking a deliberation within the parliamentary group.
The Senator was also questioned about the confrontation that her fellow Caucus staged Lilly Téllez and Malú Mícher, and stated that the parliamentary group is diverse and respected the different positions of the legislators.
Source: Vanguard

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