Abortion in San Marino, Rete hopes to be able to further improve the legislative text
“After three long days of discussion in Commission IV, discussion of the draft law on voluntary termination of pregnancy ended”.
Like this Net on the closing of the second step of the legislative process before arriving at the second reading in August in the Great and General Council for the last approval of draft law on voluntary termination of pregnancy.
The provision in question, reads the note from the government movement, “should have acknowledged in a clear and irrefutable way the mandate strongly expressed by 77% of the population; many amendments were shared unanimously that were integrated into the text, starting with articles 3 and 4 which deal with the procedure for accessing voluntary termination of pregnancy within and after the 12th week, but there was no lack of opportunities to seek to get around the goal “.
The counseling center “remains the cornerstone and it is evident that there are two ways of interpreting it: one as an informative tool for free and optional access, a concrete space where to seek help in a confidential manner and not only for voluntary termination of pregnancy; the other as an obligatory step for the woman who wants to access the voluntary interruption of pregnancy who, along the lines of Italian law, considers it as a concession of last resort, as if to create an obstacle course with the only obvious objective of to make women change their minds also through the advertising of pro-life voluntary associations, distorting in our opinion the principle sanctioned by the referendum ”.
And again: “It will also be difficult to settle the drafting of Article 1, where on the one hand there is a secular vision and on the other a more ideological position. Rete presented interventions to ensure freedom of choice on voluntary termination of pregnancy and questions relating to sexuality, the promotion of interventions for sexual and reproductive protection also through training and education. All amendments aimed at completing the standard by integrating it with important aspects such as conscientious objection, data monitoring, protection of privacy, abstention from work which, integrated with the proposals of other groups, had a unanimous consensus ” .
Finally, Rete trusts that “it will be able to further improve the legislative text compared to how it was dismissed by Commission IV, above all trying to eliminate all those aspects that we believe to be an obstacle free and conscious choice of women so that there are no more prejudices or inquisitions”.
“The institutional role that should respect, represent and concretize the will of citizenship”, says the majority movement.