The claim for the legalization of abortion persists, although with some stagnation. About sixty people, 140 less than in the last action on December 8 of this same year, gathered yesterday afternoon at La Mola park in Escaldes-Engordanyto denounce the lack of will of the Government to get the women out of the Penal Code and demanding that this process be allowed in the country, coinciding with the International day for the decriminalization of abortion. The event consisted of a simple static gathering with the reading of different messages by members of the convening group.
Demonstrators yesterday afternoon in the Mola park.
“As long as abortion is a crime, we will continue to hold the institutions accountable”
Laia Ferré, president of Feminist Actionassured that “as long as abortion is a crime in Andorra, we will continue in the streets, demanding responsibility from the institutions”. For her part, the secretary, Aurora Baenadeclared that “to defend our autonomy, our freedom and the ability to decide on our reproductive life remains essential“. In a manifesto made public yesterday, the collective rejected that abortion is necessarily presented as a traumatic experience and defended that each woman can experience the decision differently and with full awareness. “We don’t need protection, we need rights“, the organization maintained.
“Defending our autonomy and freedom of decision remains essential”
“Today, having an abortion depends on who can take a car, buy a ticket, pay for an intervention, miss work or find someone to accompany them”, warned the member Anna Boneta, and Maricel Blanch he replied that “seeing that they had the opportunity to withdraw from Penal Code article 117 and they haven’t done it, we don’t believe the words of the Government. At the moment, they are empty words”, etzibar said. However, he also added that he trusts that “this concentration will serve and on the part of the Government or from the parliamentary groups, someone show their face”.
“Today, abortion depends on who can take a car, pay for an intervention or miss work”
Precisely, some political representatives were seen at the demonstration, such as the candidate for P.S to the next general election, Gerard Alis. “We understand that no progress is being made in this process, it has been requested for years, however there is no political will”, reprimanded the postulant to head of Government. In this regard, Alis recalled that the majority of General Council he rejected an amendment from his group to decriminalize abortion in basic cases, a proposal that “falls short in relation to our project, since we defend abortion that is free and covered by the health system”, he argued. In addition, he expressed his skepticism about the possibility that the decriminalization before the end of the legislature, as he announced a few weeks ago the head of government, Xavier Espot. At the rally there were also representatives of concordsuch as the junior consul of Andorra la Vella, Olalla Losadaor the general counsel Núria Seguéswho declined to make statements to the diary
“They had the opportunity to withdraw article 117 of the Penal Code. I don’t believe the Government’s words”
Ignorance in health
To end the action, a conference was held in the common building by Helena Casadevall, who contributed a more scientific look at abortion and the phenomenon he defines as “invisibility of women’s health”. Casadevall pointed out that “the moment this ignorance is chronicled, it is no longer a void of knowledge, but fabricated ignorance”
“There is no progress in this process, it has been requested for years, but there is no political will”
