Organizations warn that “we will not give up rights” before creating a life and family commission

Human rights organizations raised their flag yesterday after Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago gave Senator for Project Dignity Joanne Rodríguez Veve a new commission called the Committee on Life and Business Affairs. Family.

The resolution specifies the competence of each commission, detailing that it can investigate or study issues affecting the Family Book of the Civil Code, in addition to changes to government programs concerning the family. It will also participate in the legislation on prenatal rights and the development of those who “make up” life “in all its stages”.

On its Twitter account, the Broad Committee for Equity accused Dalmau Santiago of setting up the new commission in exchange for Rodríguez Veve’s vote for the Senate presidency.

“From CABE we are not surprised that, at the price of a vote, we are offered a white paper for discrimination and persecution of LGBTTIQ + communities and various families by appointing a senator whose party makes us invisible to a committee of this nature, “the statement said.” There seems to be no difference between traditional parties and the way they treat LGBTTIQ communities, women and everything beyond They sold us for a vote. “

“Let the legislator know that communities, women and their allies are ready. We will not take a step back. We will not relinquish rights or allow persecution or discrimination by the bank“I conclude the statement.

For its part, the Matria Project questioned whether it would be chaired by a commission. “that it should guarantee the human rights of the senator who has an open and conservative agenda”.

“How did the senator come to the conclusion that this was the best option?”, The statement concludes.

In a statement issued in the middle of the morning, Matria and CABE issued a statement extending their complaint. In short, they accused Dalmau Santiago of ignoring the claims of fairness and described the appointment of Rodríguez Veve as a contradiction with the electoral promises of the Democratic People’s Party (PPD).

They also accused PPD of being the heir to the “worst” of the last administration I entered the Senate.

“The rights of women and LGBTTIQ people have been the protagonists in public discussions over the past four years and, in particular, in pre-election debates. All public discussions have shown that a social consensus has been built in favor of equity and that, as a country, there are more and more spaces where we believe and work to guarantee the human rights of women and other populations living in discrimination in our country. . In fact, candidates such as Maria Milagros Charbonier (who lost the mayor before she was arrested), Carlos Delgado Altieri himself and Nayda Venegas Brown were rejected for their actions and the expressions of a conservative and anti-rights court. ” , assured Isabel Ramos Hernández of the Women’s Route (Matria).

“When we read the document describing the Committee on Family Life and Affairs, it seems that it was created right from the office of Senator Rodríguez Veve and it is a shame that the presidency of the Senate accepted it and gave it the power to make decisions about issues related to the family book of the Civil Code and our families in general. It is embarrassing because it shows negligence and inconsistency between the word and the action of the presidency, but it is also insulting to women and human rights groups who have had to fight a civil and violent code for the past four years. against various families, against bills such as the PS950 which violates the right to abortion, that of Religious Freedom which tried to grant permission for discrimination and that of Reparatory Therapies which – such as the recognition of individual freedoms – intended to allow homophobic families to submit minors of physical and psychological violence, “added lawyer Amárilis Pagán Jiménez of Proyecto Matria.

Pagán said Rodríguez Veve’s agenda was “violent and threatens the physical and emotional integrity of minorities, such as women and LGBTTIQ people.”

In the case of La Mesa Aborto Libre PR, its spokesperson, Edda López Serrano, questioned the functions to be performed by the Committee on Life and Family Affairs, as well as the appointment of Rodríguez Veve to lead it.

“I hope that the issues addressed by this Commission are related to the conditions that promote inequality that people face, including the invisibility of social issues that lead to discrimination, violence and ill-treatment against LGBTTQI + women,” he said in written statements.

¨ Senate President José Luis Dalmau excluded the voices of various sectors when he appointed Senator Rodríguez Veve to the post. It is to revive attacks on our sexual and reproductive rights in the Legislature over the past four years: José Luis Dalmau has replaced the role of Nayda Venegas Brown with Senator Rodríguez Veve¨, López Serrano said, alluding to the struggles they have been waging since Aborto Libre PR table to stop PS950.

The new day requested a reaction from Dalmau Santiago to these expressions. Similarly, this medium requested an interview with Senator Rodríguez Veve to explain his work schedule.

When detailing his vote in favor of Dalmau Santiago as President of the Senate, Rodríguez Veve indicated that he did so because there was a commitment “Leave room” for abortion measures “and protect the lives of both the unborn child and pregnant mothers.”

The new day tried unsuccessfully to interview Rodríguez Veve about what he meant by regulating abortion. He met publicly with House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernandez Montañez when the legislator anticipated that he found it “difficult” to pass a bill to regulate abortion. He argued in a radio interview that the issue had been “overcome” in the last four years, but promised to implement the measure, understood as a public hearing process.

Rodríguez Veve responded to him through his social networks, indicating that Hernández Montañez’s position seemed unfortunate.

“If you favor abortion without any regulation, the important thing is that the country knows your position,” he said. “In the same way, the country will know who are the legislators who are in favor of life at any time and under the circumstances.”

In late November, Rodríguez Veve and Proyecto Dignidad representative Lisie Janet Burgos sent a letter to then-elected governor Pedro Pierluisi stating that an urgency he had announced should be generalized, as his duty was to protect the lives of all Puerto Ricans. They emphasized that the initiative only aims to promote the ideological agendas of certain groups and that it intends to use public funds to promote gender-sensitive education.

They also stressed that the violence “has no sex, no age and that its causes are diverse.”

They also argued to Pierluisi that gender ideology consists in “the idea that human beings are not born male or female and that our sexual identity depends exclusively on our self-perception, that is, on the purely subjective self-definition of the person. As if this, that is, inculcating this unscientific conception of human sexuality, will solve or address the problem of violence against women ”.