Members of the Central Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) assured that the Government has changed and amended other laws so that it can do so with the Penal Code to include the decriminalization of abortion in its three cases.
PLD representatives, led by Chanel Rosa Chupany, former director of the National Health Service (NHS) and a member of the party’s central committee, appeared in front of the National Palace, where several organizations camped for nine days to demand decriminalization. abortion.
Chanel assured that the reasons are not an imposition and that women should have the option to decide to have an abortion based on the three reasons.
“The three reasons are not an imposition, because perhaps it is important to clarify that the information was manipulated, leading us to believe that the three reasons are in any case an imposition, the three reasons I do is that they open the range of rights, women’s rights do not bind anyone, but offer an option in the three cases already mentioned, “the former official said.
He said the health service does not manage statistics on the number of women who have had abortions since they were performed illegally.
“According to statistics, health services are not registered because these cases do not reach health services,” argued Rosa Chupany.
He also explained that in six countries in the world it is illegal to have an abortion and the Dominican Republic is one of them, so women “solve unauthorized clinics, try to solve it at home, but what it does is more complicated” and He added that this is a matter of public rights and health and that it only affects the poorest women, as they cannot go to other countries for abortion.
Claudia Rita Abreu, a member of the PLD central committee, said she was convinced that decriminalizing abortion in the three cases does not affect citizens who do not believe in this alternative, because it is strictly voluntary, however, its disapproval affects physically and emotionally those women who must have the option to choose how to continue their life in a less traumatic way.
“We are outraged to see how the rapes of girls have increased as a result of the isolation conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, without the Dominican state offering them options regarding their bodies, which they own and have been forced into,” he said. Abreu. ..