Legal director of Lola Brasil, a group of liberal women, lawyer Mônica Rosenberg says that the proposed constitutional amendment that prohibits it in all cases contains a paradox.
“In the name of supposedly defending the life of the unborn child, they are taking away their basic rights from pregnant women, compromising their mental health and, in some cases, their right to life itself,” she says.
The proposal was the first stage of processing. It ends the exceptions for termination of pregnancy provided for by law: rape, risk to the mother’s health and anencephaly of the fetus.
“Are we really going to allow those without any chance of surviving outside the womb, or who are the result of rape, to carry the pregnancy to term? Enduring this pain for nine months? In the name of what?”, he asks.
According to Rosenberg, the debate is, above all, about pregnant women. “Or is it just an imposition of religious convictions, ignoring respect for the plurality of beliefs and religions that exist in Brazil?”
According to her, “by reducing the debate to a moralistic point of view and disconnected from reality, women are forgotten: their stories, their choices and, above all, their constitutional right to dignity.”
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