The Catholic Church is taking action against the Supreme Court ruling on non-punishable abortion. These actions are seeking to offer pregnant women cash incentives to keep children conceived through rape.
The Supreme Court ruling on 13 March 2012 grants the right to a safe and legal abortion in a hospital without having to seek judicial approval.
This ruling originally came out of a case involving a young girl who became pregnant at 15 after her stepfather, an officer in the Chubut police force, raped her.
Monsignor Algredo Zecca, archbishop of Tucumán, has spearheaded the initiative, which is pushing for regulation to hinder legal termination of pregnancy in cases of rape and suggesting that victims carry out the pregnancy and give the child up for adoption.
Representatives of the Catholic Church have submitted a draft ‘Law on Protection of Human Rights of Pregnant Women and Unborn Children.’ The Law offers women to be entitled to a cash stipend in cases of unwanted children if the woman decides to take responsibility for the child’s upbringing. The stipend would continue until the child turns 18.
The law would also offer the stipend to the child’s new guardian if the woman decides to give him/her up for adoption.
The agenda for last Tuesday’s meeting of the Committee on Family, Women, Children and Adolescents of the House was scheduled to begin discussing the proposed law, but the call was finally suspended.
In late March, the house of deputies drafted a new bill, which would permit a woman to terminate a pregnancy within the first twelve weeks.
This draft bill is the same that was first discussed in November at the Criminal Law Committee but it lost its parliamentary status at the end of 2011.
Errr… that already exists and it’s called “Asignación Universal por Hijo”. Ah the church, always a step ahead…
The State should stop funding the Church. People’s taxes are paying for this.
Only very twisted and sick (male) brains could try and buy a woman’s womb that way. Becase everyone who has ever gone through a pregnancy knows the sacrifice it means for a woman and her body. BEING PREGNANT IS NO FUN for about 70 % of the time! Only very deep love to a WANTED child and the desire to be a mother can get me personally to do it again. Otherwise the women will have to live with the reminder of a horrible trauma for 9 months. They’ll have to feel sick, have nausea, get their bodies torn open AGAIN, only to satisfy the catholic church? No money in the world will heal the trauma after it has been burnt into them for so long, and so painfully. If they could get rid of the evidence of the trauma quickly, and get psychological help as soon as possible, they can start to heal and one day be a GOOD MOTHER to a WANTED and LOVED child.