Through a statement signed by the National Coordination Team, the organization came to the crossroads of “versions that circulate about the actions of Gravida in a painful situation that occurred with a minor in the province of Santa Fe” and assured that “the way of accompaniment has gone down a completely different lane than what some media outlets have reported.”
The media took statements from local authorities, among others, from the Minister of Equality, Gender and Diversity, Florencia Marinaro, who took aim at Grávida by arguing that the girl and her mother “were intercepted by an NGO that sought to prevent the procedure from taking place finished”.
“Our intervention responded to a very specific situation. The mother of a minor, a pregnant girl, a 24-week gestation and a relevant clinical pathology. Can we say that someone was forced when it was the people who chose to receive help? offered by Gravida?”, adds the text.
According to Grávida, “from the first meeting, it was made clear that they would be accompanying each other, offering alternatives, making ourselves available, with absolute respect for the decisions that were being made.”
In addition, he indicated that he “promoted” a “specialized consultation” and justified the recruitment of the minor and her mother by saying that it was to provide them “with accommodation and a place where they could be comfortable, at a time of such difficult decisions.”
When the case was made public on Tuesday, the National Campaign for the Right to Abortion in Santa Fe called Gravida a “fundamentalist organization” and asked that its actions in the case be investigated, because “it wanted to obstruct the right of the girl to termination of pregnancy.
In the same sense, today a hundred social organizations, unions, feminists, legislators and legislators presented a note to the Minister of Government, Justice and Human Rights of the province, Celia Arena, through which they request reports on the case.
Among other issues, they asked to know the measures adopted by the Government regarding the actions of Gravida, as well as the Judiciary and the General Inspectorate of Legal Entities. They also required to know if there are state economic contributions to that NGO and in what concept, if there are contracts by the provincial State of personnel or services to Gravida and the detail of the same, in addition to the tenor of the interventions of the Secretariat of Children, Adolescents and Family and the ministries of Social Development, Health and Equality, Gender and Diversity.
The letter is signed by the provincial deputies Verónica Benas, Mercedes Meier, Agustina Donnet and the deputy Rubén Giustiniani, as well as an extensive list of organizations both from Santa Fe and other parts of the country.
On Monday, a girl from the town of Garibaldi did not go with her mother to undergo the legal interruption of the pregnancy and later it was learned that she had been captured by Gravida, who put them up in a house in the city of Santa Fe.
The provincial State rescued both with the public force and placed her under its protection in a public hospital, while an inter-ministerial team analyzes the situation and waits for the girl to “calm down” to define the steps to follow, as reported by the secretary of Childhood, Adolescence and Family of the province, Patricia Chialvo.
On December 19, the girl was taken by her mother for a medical check-up, in which it was found that she was pregnant, for which both expressed the intention to terminate the pregnancy and signed a consent, but the practice could not be carried out due to the intervention of the NGO . On the other hand, prosecutor Alejandra Del Río Ayala charged the girl’s father, identified with the initials GMA, 42, for the crime of aggravated sexual abuse, in a hearing held yesterday in the Santa Fe Courts.
On its website, the organization presents itself as an “accompaniment service to strengthen vulnerable motherhood”, and is supported by funds from the Committee for Charitable Intervention in Favor of the Third World (CEI), ADVENIAT Episcopal Commission for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, Aid to the Church in Need (AIN) and Subcommittee of Bishops for the Church in Latin America (USCCB).
