Deputies and deputies maintained a meeting with Patricia ChialvoSecretary of Childhood, Adolescence and Family of the province, for the case of a child under 12 years of age who requested access to a Legal Interruption of Pregnancy (ILE) and was retained by a religious organization called Gravida.
Agustina Donnet, member of the Equality and Participation blockspoke with Chain OH! about the meeting and the objective of having information about the protocols that were used and how they were carried out.
“In a case of this kind there is a inter-ministerial action, there has to be a comprehensive perspective, not only in the case of the minor who suffered an obstruction of her ILE, also by Gravida because it is not the first time that she has acted in this way. So it doesn’t have to happen again. But it is not only that, it is important that the desire of that minor and her mother be guaranteed, which was manifested on different occasions, “she said.
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As it later became known, the State had already been intervening with the family, who suffered conditions of vulnerability and violence in addition to the case of abuse of the minor. “Many data cannot be public, the re-victimization of the girl must be avoided. The information was provided from the Ministry of Health, Social Development and Gender and Equality. They stated that they acted in accordance with the current protocol for voluntary and legal interruption of pregnancy, but there are shortcomings in the protection service, there are obstacles and obstacles“.
For Donnet this is not an isolated event, but is intertwined with other rights to be guaranteed. He insisted on the need to resume the slogans of the Campaign for Legal Abortioncomprehensive sexual education to decide, contraceptives not to abort and the effective implementation of the voluntary or legal interruption of pregnancy.
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“We must continue talking about the subject, we have taken a leap in the debate on the legal interruption of pregnancy. A while ago abortion was a taboo subject, and we gave a social debate that is important and significant. Santa Fe is one of the provinces in the country that does not have a comprehensive sexual education law, and it is important that we can guarantee it.”
“The meeting was positive, it is always good that we meet in these instances of an institutional nature, this is a commitment from all levels of the State, but also a critical eye on the shortcomings in the protection system. The provincial State clearly, in some instances, continues to arrive late“he said finally.
