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Report Shadow presented by Lesbians and Feminists for Decriminalization of Abortion before the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

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In Argentina, abortion is illegal and punishable by imprisonment, unless the pregnancy resulted from rape, in case of danger to life or women's health, or if the woman has a mental illness or disability. Even in these cases, the ability to access legal abortion are rare. Occur each year in our country between 460,000 and 600,000 abortions under clandestine conditions. Every three days a woman dies as a result of unsafe abortion. So many suffer physical and emotional product experience underground and the violence they experience.

The prohibition of abortion does not relieve the State from its obligations to prevent unsafe abortion: not dying or getting sick from unsafe abortion is a basic human right, universal and non-derogable, shared by all countries even those where abortion is illegal (under the 1994 Constitution, Article 75. inc. 2, CEDAW Committee, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights General Comment 14, para. 43 d, e, f, para. 44 a, c, d, among others, Decision of the Cairo Summit on Population and Development, Millennium Development Goal No. 5).

This report is based primarily on information provided by these 1616 women who called the toll from all over the country, for information on safe abortion. In this framework, aims to provide the Committee with specific information on concrete actions and omissions the Argentine government in realizing the right to health of women, under the terms of Article 12 of the Convention, according to the interpretation of this Committee and other bodies of the International Human Rights Treaties.

The experience of international health policy is emphatic about to lower the morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortion requires supplement efforts to expand access to contraception and improving post-abortion care, replacement policies unsafe methods of safe abortion, and safe methods to replace expensive, cheap and easy methods manage safe abortion.

both in countries where abortion is legal and where abortion is illegal, lower the cost of abortion services to expand its accessibility and availability is a major health policy challenges. In this replacement policy, abortion with the drug misoprostol has the highest advances and guarantees.

Misoprostol is an essential drug by the World Health Organization for being cheap, effective, widely available in a large number of countries and be culturally acceptable to produce self-induced abortions safe until 12 weeks of pregnancy, contributing to reduce the prevalence of avoidable deaths and complications from unsafe abortions worldwide, even in countries where abortion is illegal. Before misoprostol, no method was considered by WHO and international medical organizations as safe for women to have abortions by themselves at home, at any stage of pregnancy.

The regulatory framework of the right to health makes it clear that essential medicines should be available, accessible, acceptable and of good quality to benefit vulnerable populations without discrimination throughout the world. According to GC 14 of the CESCR on the right to health, "... a State party can not never in any circumstances justify its infringement of the basic obligations set out in paragraph 43 above, which are irrevocable. "

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60% of Argentines believe that abortion should be decriminalized the

Discuss the exceptional abortions, which are legislated since 1921 and do not cover more than a few women per year, is the move imposed by the sectors they want to muddy the field of debate on the legalization of abortion .

The survey was carried out by copy down IBAROMETRO released on 22 / 7. Shows that the question is not "whether to regulate the exceptions to criminal code," but, as the survey question: "Are you agree that a woman who aborts is imposed a prison sentence?".

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60% of Argentines believe that abortion should be decriminalized the

The national survey also shows that this view does not mean they agree with the action abortion. The survey also reveals that a large majority supported the right of women to decide about her pregnancy.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Most Argentines approve the decriminalization abortion, but this statement does not necessarily mean they agree with abortion, according to a survey of private consulting Ibarómetro.

Most also agreed that women should have the right to terminate her pregnancy according to their needs and personal convictions.

"Nearly 60% of Argentines agree not to penalize a woman who had an abortion", resulted from the measurement. The opinion in this regard reached 70% of respondents in the metropolitan area, while inside the country this percentage reached 49.9%.

Interviewees responded well to the question: "Do you agree that a woman who aborts is imposed a prison sentence?".

Meanwhile, 58.5% of respondents believed that women have the right to terminate her pregnancy according to their needs and personal convictions, while 30% did not think so.

Ibarómetro The consultant conducted a survey throughout the country to evaluate the opinion of the Argentines on the issue of abortion as part of their studies systematic assessment of the perception of Argentine social, political and cultural.