A few days ago the PP government, with Gallardón in the lead, made public the Preliminary draft law on the protection of conceived life and the rights of pregnant women, of which Eva Paris gave us an excellent summary. To highlight, from the preliminary draft, that abortion ceases to be a right to become a crime, although clarifying that the woman would be exempt from guilt, which would fall on the doctor responsible for performing the abortion.
This will mean that, unless there are some of the cases for which abortion can be performed (violation and serious risk to the physical and / or psychological health of the mother), women who want to abort have to do it clandestinely. This poses a risk to your health and now more than a year ago WHO alerted Spain to it, explaining that there would be more maternal mortality, in order to avoid passing the law that will presumably be approved soon.
Why the WHO said that
I say, it was more than a year ago, but he did it because it was seen coming what just happened. Almost half of the abortions performed in the world put women's lives at risk. Most happen in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the result is that every year 47,000 women die because of the complications of the intervention.
Comparing data between 1990 and 2008, the number of abortions performed in the world increased from 19 million to 21.6, normal if one considers that in those 18 years the female population increased. Now, when comparing the percentage of unsafe abortions, the thing is worrying, because it has passed from 44% to 49%.
And the most interesting thing that the WHO communicated to Spain is that, when comparing data from countries with restrictive laws with those from more liberal countries, the number of total abortions does not vary too much, but the number of unsafe abortions increases. Come on, what is going to happen with the new law, if it is finally passed, is that the same women will be aborted, with the only difference that, instead of doing well, safely for their life, they will do it wrong, where there is a doctor (or a non-doctor) willing to put at risk his profession and / or his life (imprisonment), and the life of the woman, to practice that abortion outside the law in exchange for money .
Returning to (before) 1985
According to Santiago Barambio, president of ACAI (Association of Accredited Clinics for Interruption of Pregnancy), in 1976 there were about 100,000 clandestine abortions a year, in which between 200 and 400 women died. By changing the law in 1985 and allowing abortion in some cases, maternal mortality was reduced to 0.6 per 100,000 women.
Then, in 2010, free abortion was allowed between 14 and 22 weeks, and now the government wants return to 1985 regulations, or shortly before, because the preliminary bill does not allow abortion in case of fetal malformation, unless such malformation is incompatible with life.
Barambio himself said last year the following:
In Argentina there are 500,000 clandestine abortions a year that cause 80,000 hospital admissions and 400 annual deaths ... Since they do not have abortion, they have died and, if they do not die, they have a significant number of spoiled women.
Concluding
There must be another solution, there must be, because instead of going forward we are going backwards. The government penalizes abortion and tells women that "I'm sorry, my daughter, you are guiding it, you eat it," taking them away, and their partners, that we will also have something to say parents, I say, possibility of decide what to do with their bodies and their lives. This will make many do the same even when their lives are in danger (sailor cloth ...).
What do I say, if they still gave some help by birth, or support of some kind, well look, they could make up the decision. But no, they have removed aid by birth, they have removed aid by dependency (I do not let you abort a baby if it has a malformation, but I do not give you means to take care of it), health and education are being loaded, saving banks that They have little qualms about evicting entire families, but don't worry, if another country attacks us, we will have weapons for everyone.
