Marcelo: “I don’t believe Portugal can go back on abortion. It no longer exists as a problem”
PRESS MAGAZINE. This week, the US Supreme Court announces whether or not to repeal the 1973 law on what makes abortion legal in the country. To DN, Marcelo considers that in Portugal this issue “no longer exists”
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, assumes that the illegalization of abortion “has ceased to exist” as a “fracturing issue” in Portuguese society, on the day the US Supreme Court announces whether or not to revoke the historic decision of 1973 that additional legal abortion.
“I don’t believe that Portugal can resort to an abortion. It was necessary that the radical, religious lines can be made to a brutal weight.
Marcelo replied like this News Diarywho questioned the head of state about the decision that the US Supreme Court is due to announce this Monday on the unconstitutionality of the illegalization of abortion enacted in 1973.
“Portuguese society ended up, somehow, failing to consider this issue as a clear, doctrinal cleavage issue. , including in the metropolitan country, which largely dominates, in terms of population, the former rural country.
It is recalled that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was, throughout his political career and as a television commentator, one of the voices against the legalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in Portugal. In 1988, when this issue went to the referendum, Marcelo, who was then president of the PSD, made an agreement with Prime Minister António Guterres (PS) to stop the entry into force of a law that year in parliament and which was approved abortion. up to 12 weeks by decision of the woman.