{"id":233670,"date":"2020-10-28T17:43:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T22:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233670"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:28:41","slug":"delay-pandemic-argentina-president-legalize-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/delay-pandemic-argentina-president-legalize-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"After delay due to pandemic, Argentina&#8217;s president promises to legalize abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Following pressure from pro-abortion groups, the president of Argentina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/argentina-moves-ahead-with-abortion-legalization\/ar-BB1arQta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> Tuesday that he would make good on his campaign promise to legalize abortion in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to MSN, President Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez told Radio Metro that his administration is working on the finishing touches to a bill that will be sent to Congress. Currently, abortion is legal in Argentina only in cases of rape or if the mother&#8217;s health or life are in danger. Abortion \u2014 the intentional and deliberate killing of a child before birth \u2014 is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-never-medically-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never truly medically necessary<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFZDhM5Gwhk\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want this theme to become another dispute among Argentines,&#8221; said Fern\u00e1ndez. &#8220;We respect everyone, I don&#8217;t want this to generate a new debate.&#8221; However, this is unlikely in the predominantly Catholic country, where many citizens hold deep pro-life beliefs that all human beings are worthy of life. This year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/400000-argentina-online-march-for-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">400,000 Argentines<\/a> attended the 2020 March for Life online.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, under then-president Mauricio Macri, Argentina&#8217;s Congress passed a bill to legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/5-things-pro-lifers-argentina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> voted it down after <a href=\"https:\/\/prolife-argentina.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-lifers<\/a>\u00a0mobilized to convince the Senate not to pass it. Macri&#8217;s pro-life stance may have also played a part in the Senate&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, then-President-Elect Fern\u00e1ndez\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/about-face-president-argentina-immediate-abortion-legalization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vowed<\/a> to put pressure on legislators to legalize abortion as soon as he took office in December. Then in March 2020, he said he <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/legalize-abortion-argentina-failed-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would send a bill<\/a> to Congress within ten days that would make Argentina the first major country in Latin America to legalize abortion. The COVID-19 pandemic then struck, putting those plans on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-abortion groups including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippfwhr.org\/country\/argentina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The International Planned Parenthood Federation<\/a> have been working with pro-abortion groups within Argentina to help put the pressure on the government to expand abortion even during a global pandemic. Pro-abortion pressure during the pandemic has proven dangerous already. The United States and the United Kingdom\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nacla.org\/news\/2020\/07\/08\/argentina-abortion-reform-covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saw the use of the abortion pill expanded<\/a>\u00a0during the nation&#8217;s lockdown, a practice that has proven dangerous in the UK where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nacla.org\/news\/2020\/07\/08\/argentina-abortion-reform-covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two women have died<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n<p>If Argentina legalizes elective abortion, that decision could have a ripple effect across Latin America, allowing a window of opportunity for other pro-abortion groups to put pressure on their own governments to legalize the killing of preborn children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following pressure from pro-abortion groups, the president of Argentina announced Tuesday that he would make good on his campaign promise to legalize abortion in the country. 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