Making sexual and reproductive health services accessible in practice means the limits of invoking conscientious objection must be incisively interrogated.
Making sexual and reproductive health services accessible in practice means the limits of invoking conscientious objection must be incisively interrogated.
The Argentine Catholic Church has repudiated the law and conservative doctors and lawyers groups have urged resistance. Doctors and health professionals can claim conscientious objection to performing abortions, but cannot invoke the right if a pregnant woman’s life or health is in danger.
A statement signed by the Consortium of Catholic Doctors, the Catholic Lawyers Corporation and other groups called on doctors and lawyers to “resist with nobility, firmness and courage the norm that legalizes the abominable crime of abortion.
The anti-abortion group Unidad Provida also urged doctors, nurses and technicians to fight for their “freedom of conscience” and promised to accompany them in all the trials that are necessary.”
Help Save People s World
The economic crisis has hit People s World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing.
Argentina’s abortion law enters force under watchful eyes January 25, 2021 10:11 AM CDT By Almudena Calatrava
In this Dec. 30, 2020 file photo, abortion-rights activists watch live video streaming of lawmakers in session, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina became the largest nation in Latin America to legalize elective abortion after its Senate on Dec. 30 passed a law guaranteeing the procedure up to the 14th week of pregnancy. The abortion law goes into force Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. | Natacha Pisarenko/AP