translated from Spanish: They presented the new project for legal abortion in the annex of Deputies

On Tuesday 28 May at 17:30 in Room 2 of annex C of Deputies began the official presentation of the new bill for legal abortion. The press conference is moderated by Victoria Tesoriero and Pamela Martín García, both members of the national Campaign for safe and free Legal abortion, which drives the initiative. The standard already obtained 70 signatures of deputies and deputies. The following are the most notable passages: Victoria Donda, national deputy
“The joy would be that last year the law would have come out. We are presenting a project to which we are committed and I think I will speak on behalf of my colleagues and colleagues on the premises, we are committed to having a half-sanction this year. Even if it is an election year, we are going to get that half sanction from the Chamber of Deputies. We have senators and senators a little complicated, let’s use the elections. ” Brenda Austin, national deputy
“This is the point of the union between the green tide and the institutionality. For the first time in the history of these 8 presentations of the campaign project we are presenting it in election year. That’s worth a lot. They’re a minority. We cannot fight the bearers of hatred. ” Marta Alanis, popular educator and founder of Catholic for the right to decide 
“The importance of how they see us outside: The Argentine green Tide is leading a global process. It’s a pride and a great responsibility. It’s also a disgrace what happened in the Senate. The senators who voted against should make these travel to receive the repudiation of the public and of international personalities. The Minister of Equality of France made a harangue in the European Parliament claiming Argentine women. Senators can’t be allowed to turn their backs on us. ” Romina del Plá, national deputy
“We have No time to wait, for intermediate stays, to discuss whether to decriminalize before legalizing because women are still dying. We have to make it be treated right away. We want to propose two things to the campaign: if Congress turns its back we should consider the question of convening a binding popular consultation; To make a call to all pre-candidates for presidents and vice to a debate where they have to set a position on all these issues, that there is possibility of a question. ” Mónica Macha, national deputy
“What looks like it’s not going to be, we can make it. We need to recover the Ministry of Salud”Araceli Ferreira, national deputy
“The Senate did not live up to the circumstances: they did not understand the dimension of what they were haciendo”Carla Carrizo, national deputy
“We need the executive to see us. That’s the challenge we have. We could agree, there are no matches here. Now that the agreements are fashionable, we go for that.
The Senate is disciplined because a president disciplines it. I don’t want to be told decriminalization yes, no legalization. ” Nicolás del Caño, national deputy
“You have to end up with those dinosaurs that are the ones that prevented this right last year. It is a pride to participate and be part of, count on us in all places where we touch to be: In a candidacy, in the House of Deputies, in the streets, anywhere, we will contribute our bit. ” Daniel Lipovetzky, national deputy
“One year of all this important process was fulfilled, where we debated with so many fundamentals on which side was the right and on which side was selfishness. To overcome the partisan divisions and put them to work all in the same project that is the right for the women. The debate is not ‘ abortion yes or abortion no ‘, is whether it is ‘ safe, legal and free or clandestine abortion ‘. This is the key. And the other key is that being a health issue, the State must guarantee it. (…) No doubt it will be law, we will have a legal abortion law, safe and free. ” Mónica Schlotthauer, national deputy
“The women’s Movement for legal, safe and free abortion, neither inside nor outside, nor in the streets is defeated. It is stronger and clearer than ever because if something is clear to us is that in the government itself there is a lodge of Antiright politicians who intend to maintain clandestine abortion so that they continue dying and mutilating die. It’s time because the law is late for those we already buried. ” Cecilia Moreau, national deputy
“I want to thank the collective of actresses and journalists, who were fundamental in this whole process, made our message reach places where politics may not arrive. I believe that many of us are assuming a commitment to life, which goes far beyond the legalization of abortion and that we now come to ratify. We come to ratify that with this project we are stronger but the project is also stronger, it evolved along with us. I believe that since the recovery of democracy a participatory process of these characteristics has never been experienced. I have the peace of mind that we definitely understood that our bodies and our lives decided, and not having understood it led me to live situations that I want my daughter not to live tomorrow. Freedom we don’t negotiate anymore. ” In this note:

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