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Latin American Declaration on the Abortion

5 THOUSAND WOMEN DIE EACH YEAR IN LATIN AMERICA

NO MORE DEATHS CLANDESTINE ABORTIONS!

THE RIGHT TO LEGAL ABORTION, safe and free

Latin America has the highest rates of abortions performed under unsafe conditions, almost 4 million per year. It is clear that the policy of criminalizing abortion, which prevails in the region, it serves to prevent abortions are still practicing self-induced or clandestine circuits where conditions endanger the lives of millions of women, mostly young, adolescents, workers and poor.

During the past decades, religious fundamentalism has left in our region: churches, neoliberal governments, as well as opposition politicians representing the interests of employers, oligarchic and pro-imperialist right-wing policy imposed against the most elementary democratic rights of women.

Latin American women have a long history of fighting for abortion rights, confronting the obscurantist Church and governments and right-wing politicians, clerics and reactionaries, but the assumption of governments " post-neoliberal "in the region raised expectations in large sectors of the movement of women clashed against the harsh reality, these governments that call themselves "progressives" have not only done nothing to stop the brutal "femicide" caused by illegal abortion in our continent, but, worse still, echoes of the atrocities flying the Church and right wing, as seen in his statements, his respectful statements against abortion rights when the right of press and, above all, as can be seen from the inescapable fact that abortion is still illegal.

The result is that Latin American governments that called themselves "progressive" continue to prohibit the elementary democratic right to decide on our own bodies and our own lives, which is nothing more than enable and legitimize the death of 5 000 women in Latin America, in a heartbreaking bleeding, which has its casualties among our poor sisters continent.

In Argentina not even respect the legislation requiring that abortion is not punishable when the pregnancy endangered the life of women. Justice, Health Minister and President Cristina Fernández have spoken on several occasions against this fundamental right. Under pressure from the Church and other right wing, prevented even therapeutic abortions were practiced girls abused, raped, and are primarily responsible for that are currently more than 400 women who die in this country, the consequences of abortions.

In Chile not permit abortion under any circumstances, since '89 with the Pinochet dictatorship, being one of the most restrictive countries in this field. The right and the church held great power in the political decisions: in 2008 they stopped the "morning after pill" from being sold in public health clinics. The Concertación government endorsed this and now, on the campaign trail, say they are willing to discuss therapeutic abortion, while they have maintained the law on this subject since the dictatorship that led to the deaths of hundreds of women about the consequences of abortions illegal. President Bachelet who initially was against legalizing abortion, presented the contraceptive pill emergency as the solution to teen pregnancy, but today, speak out against the ruling that won the right and the church against this fundamental right of working women, young and poor, removing the "pill" and endorsing the misery.

In Brazil , the Church of Pernambuco, with support from the Vatican, says that abortion is worse than rape, and excommunicated the doctors and mothers responsible for the abortion performed on a 9-year-old pregnant with twins, after being abused by her stepfather. Meanwhile, President Lula, on the one side says that abortion is a public health issue, but on the other hand gives a hand to the Church, reassuring, saying that he sees no need for Congress to pass a law legalizing abortion, since the existing two exceptional cases (rape and risk of death). In addition, prosecution of 10 000 women, in Mato Grosso do Sul, for having abortions, Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on Abortion in the House of Representatives and the campaign in defense of fetuses without brain give Brazil the title of "model anti-abortion rights" to host, in 2010, the World Meeting in Defense of Life.

In Uruguay in November 2008, the current President Vázquez, as was mentioned earlier, vetoed the legislation - which had been approved by both houses of the legislature, proposing the decriminalization of abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Despite the protests and voices were raised against the presidential veto, it was not overturned. Perhaps it was the single point of his campaign that the president kept to his word!

In Ecuador's Rafael Correa , abortion is a crime. During the inauguration of the National Constituent Assembly in 2007, the Ecuadorian president spoke out against the decriminalization of abortion and the next year to respond to the accusations of the Church and leave no room for doubt about their position, government stressed the non-recognition of legal abortion in the new constitution. "Never I understand statements like 'my body, my choice' when it is clear that the embryo, fetus or baby that a mother carries is no longer part of his body "Correa said, adding he would vote against" if the new Constitution approve prenatal euthanasia. "

In Bolivia , abortion is punishable by three years of prison for women who give consent. In the constituent assembly to reestablish the country, the rhetoric used by ruling party, there was a proposal for sexual and reproductive rights developed by agrupacionesde women, NGOs, indigenous women, feminist groups and independent, where he proposed specifically that the decriminalization of abortion, privacy rights and personal privacy, the right to determine one's own body, and motherhood, freely and voluntarily, to pleasure and eroticism. Given this, Evo Morales was accused by the Church and right-wing sectors of wanting to legalize abortion in the new constitution. The president quickly came to defend these "slanderous," denying that this was part of his plan and defended his government "Culture of life."
In Nicaragua abortion is illegal under any circumstance since October 2006, even though it is a child who has been raped. Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's current president, took a step back in history, repealing existing legislation since 1893, in a terrible agreement made with the most reactionary of the Nicaraguan Church to gain their support in recent elections. Besides being loaded on his back an accusation of sexual abuse by his stepdaughter, Daniel Ortega promotes the pursuit of sectors of the feminist movement fighting for the legalization of abortion in this country.

In Venezuela , "Socialism of the XXI century" does not include the rights of women: its president, Hugo Chavez has spoken out against abortion and has prevented, with some parliamentary Chavez has also spoken out against this fundamental right, to advance legislation for the decriminalization of abortion on the grounds -Within his own party, "that such a measure could seriously affect their constituents and losing the support so far has been by the evangelical church.

In El Salvador , which recently won the elections, the FMLN, Mauricio Funes, the current chairman, committed to representing different churches to eradicate the high rate of abortions in the country, declaring: "I will not promote any initiative aimed at legalizing abortion ... I said no, no clearer than that I can be. "clear.