Members of the Central Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) assured that the government has amended and amended other laws so that it could do so with the criminal code to include the decriminalization of abortion in its three causes.
The PLD representatives, led by Chanel Rosa Chupany, former director of the National Health Service (SNS) and a member of that party’s central committee, appeared before the National Palace where several organizations camp for nine days to fight decriminalization. of the abortion.
Chanel assured that the grounds have not been imposed and that women should have the option to decide to have an abortion based on the three grounds.
“ The three grounds are not an imposition because perhaps it is important to make it clear that since the information has been manipulated, by believing that the three grounds would be an imposition anyway, the three grounds they do is that opening the scope of rights does not oblige a woman’s right to anyone, but gives it an option in the three cases already mentioned, ”said the former official.
He said the health service does not maintain a statistic on the number of women who have had abortions as they are done clandestinely.
“Regarding the statistics, the health services are not registered because those cases do not reach the health services,” said Rosa Chupany.
He also explained that in the world it is only illegal to perform abortion in six countries and the Dominican Republic is one of them, so women ‘solve the unauthorized clinics, they try to solve it at home, but what it does is complicate more “, adding that this is a matter of rights and public health and that it only affects the poorest women, as they cannot go to other countries for abortion.
Claudia Rita Abreu, member of the PLD’s central committee, said she was convinced that the decriminalization of the termination of pregnancy in the three causes does not affect the citizens who do not believe in this alternative at all, as it is strictly voluntary. However, not approving it has a physical and emotional effect on those women who need to be able to choose how to go about their lives in a less traumatic way.
“We are furious to see how girls’ rapes have increased as a result of the isolation conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, without the Dominican state offering them options over their bodies, which they own and which were coerced,” Abreu said. . .