Thursday, March 28

Congress will show today the vast majority that will approve the abortion law


Demonstration in Madrid in favor of abortion. / CR

The plenary will overturn this morning the vetoes of PP and Vox and will shield the processing of this norm, of the LGTBI-Trans and those of animal welfare and against abuse

Alfonso Torres

Today, Congress will exhibit the vast parliamentary majority that will guarantee that the new abortion law, which frees 16 and 17-year-old girls from having parental permission to voluntarily interrupt their pregnancy, will be approved soon, even before the end of the year .

The plenary session will knock down the amendments to the totality proposed by PP and Vox against the text promoted by the Government and during the political debate it is expected that practically the rest of the chamber will establish a favorable position for its future final approval, except for the conservatives and Citizens, who do not It has an objection to the part that regulates abortion, but it does object to others, such as the one that considers violence against women and tightens the prohibition of surrogacy.

The parliamentary majority in favor of the text, which includes the left and nationalists, could even exceed the support obtained by the rule that updates and expands, which established in 2010 a law of deadlines and legalized free abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy. The one known as the ‘Aído law’, after the minister who promoted it, was approved by 184 deputies, almost ten above the absolute majority.

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The new law, among other measures, will also protect the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in public hospitals close to the place of residence of the pregnant woman and the existence of sick leave due to incapacitating rules, it will introduce a prenatal permit from week 39 and a convalescence after abortion and It will guarantee the free use of latest-generation contraceptives and the morning-after pill.

The obstacles to the approval of the abortion law will be removed in the same plenary session that is expected to defeat the PP and Vox vetoes against three other regulations, the one that expands and guarantees the rights of LGTBI and trans citizens, the Animal Welfare and the one that toughens criminal punishments for the abandonment and mistreatment of vertebrate animals. The Animal Welfare also has an amendment to the entire PNV, not because it disagrees with the substance of the rule but because it considers that it invades the regional powers in the matter.

If the forecast is confirmed, the four laws will go to the debate and negotiation in committee of the amendments of the groups to their articles, a vote prior to the final approval of the amended text by the plenary sessions of Congress and the Senate.

call to rebellion

The first law to be debated by the plenary session is the LGTBI-Trans, which among other reforms recognizes the right of gender self-determination for transsexuals, allows official sex change from the age of 12, prohibits therapies to “cure” gay people , lesbians or bisexuals and punishes them with harsh fines, shields the free right to assisted reproduction techniques for all these groups, including trans with the ability to gestate, and for the first time recognizes and protects victims of violence between couples of same sex, among a long list.

The socialist deputies are not expected to join the rebellion to which they were called by the classic feminist sector of the party, led by former vice president Carmen Calvo, who encouraged to stop the processing of a norm that she considers crushes part of the conquests of women, especially those related to protection against gender and sexual violence, by giving freedom to each person to decide what their legal sex is and ending, they believe, with the safety of women in spaces such as the home, changing rooms , prisons or shelters.

Neither United We Can nor the LGTBI-Trans organizations, the main promoters of the text, believe that the PSOE is going to break during the parliamentary process with a political pact that took months to develop, which this summer allowed the approval of the project by the Council of Ministers , putting some kind of condition to the free determination of gender in the Registry.

around the hunt

The other law from which a subsequent controversial negotiation of amendments is expected is Animal Welfare, which pursues the abandonment and zero sacrifice of pets, which prohibits breeding by individuals and the sale of animals in stores, punishes killing healthy pets , requires taking a digital course to have a dog and aims to convert zoos and dolphinariums that do not close into breeding places for native species.

The PSOE has stirred up its partners in Unidos Podemos and several parliamentary group partners by announcing that it plans to significantly modify the law that its own Council of Ministers supported. He announced that he will pay attention to the demands of the hunters by removing their packs from the requirements and restrictions of the norm, from which sheepdogs and those used for police, rescue or guide tasks will also be excluded, which will be regulated their coexistence with man in another specific law.

Its government partners, who promoted the text from the Ministry of Social Rights, hope that the Socialists end up negotiating some kind of reversal of this amendment, because otherwise the disagreement could be of such magnitude that it would endanger even the approval itself. end of law.


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