Civil society representatives, academics and cultural leaders will on Tuesday kick off the debate in Argentina’s Lower House about a bill to decriminalise abortion.
Fifteen speakers will have their turn to present arguments for or against the proposal to decriminalise voluntary abortions to a maximum 14 weeks.
The president of the General Legislation Committee Daniel Lipovetzky will act as the moderator. Lawmakers will not present arguments, instead limiting themselves to questions.
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Several protests, for and against the bill, are scheduled for outside the Congress building throughout Tuesday.
In favour of the bill are: journalist Luis Novaresio; head of Catholics for the Right to Decide, Marta Alanis; Executive Director of the Social and Legals Studies Centre (CELS), Gastón Chillier; sociologist and historian Dora Barrancos; constitutional lawyer Andrés Gil Domínguez; lawyer, educator and researcher Paola Bergallo; lawyer and family law specialist Nelly Minyersky; psiconalysist Martha Rosenberg; and lawyer Susana Chiarotti.
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Against the bill are: Father José María de Paola (Padre Pepe); the director of Profamilia Oscar Botta; Judicial Sociology specialist María Angélica Gelli; constitutional lawyer Alberto Bianci; Sophia institute manager Cristina Magueys; Bioethics specialist Raquel Graciela Bolton; and philosophy teacher and technical advisor to the Marriage and Family Institute of the Argentine Catholic University, Alejandra Planker.
-TIMES
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