Milei declares herself against abortion: “It is a homicide aggravated by the bond”

The far-right president Javier Milei He declared himself against the legal abortion approved in Argentina since 2020 and considered his supporters “murderers”, when speaking in front of high school students this Wednesday.

“I realize that for me the abortion is homicide aggravated by the bond and I can demonstrate this to you from a mathematical, philosophical, and scientific perspective. liberalism“, he said before the audience of young people from secondary school in Cardinal Copella School, a Catholic establishment in Buenos Aires where the president attended high school.

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Milei described those who supported the passage of the law as “the green scarf killers”. in allusion to the emblem that characterizes feminist struggles and that became the flag of activism for legal abortion in Argentina.

This week, France became the first country to write the “guaranteed freedom” to abort in its Constitutionalmost half a century after its decriminalization in that country.

The allusion to Milei It takes place two days before the celebration of the International Women’s Day March 8th.

In Argentina This year’s women’s march will have the motto “Against hunger, adjustment and repression”to denounce the social consequences of adjustment economic activity carried out by the ultraliberal government of Mileiwhen inflation exceeds 250% annually and poverty exceeds 50% of the population.

Since taking office on December 10th, Milei eliminated the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity and recently announced the closure of the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (Inadi) in addition to prohibiting the use of inclusive language in the Armed Forces and throughout the national public administration.

A bit before Milei will travel to the Vatican for an audience with Pope Francis on February 12, said deputy Rocio Bonacciof the ruling party La Libertad Avanza, presented a bill to reverse the legalization of abortion and classify it as a crimealthough the government later clarified that this issue was not a priority.

The Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy law was approved in December 2020 and put into practice in January 2021 after a debate that polarized Argentine society and crossed all political forces.

It contemplates the possibility of aborting up to and including 14 weeks of pregnancy without the need to explain the reasons.

Source: Elcomercio

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