Organizations warn that “we will not give up rights” before the creation of a Life and Family Commission

Organizations dedicated to the defense of human rights hoisted their flags yesterday after Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago, Senator for Project Dignity, Joanne Rodríguez Veve, awarded a new commission called the Commission on Life and Life Matters . Family.

The resolution specifying the jurisdiction of each committee details its ability to investigate or study matters affecting the Civil Code Family Book, as well as changes to government programs affecting the family. Likewise, it will address legislation related to prenatal rights and the development of those who “shape” life “in all its stages.

On his Twitter account, the Broad Committee for the Search for Equity accused Dalmau Santiago of setting up the new committee in exchange for Rodríguez Veve voting for him for the Senate presidency.

“We are not surprised at CABE that, at the cost of one vote, we get carte blanche for the discrimination and persecution of LGBTTIQ + communities and diverse families by appointing in a committee of this nature a senator whose party makes us invisible, ”the statement read. “There doesn’t seem to be a difference between the traditional parties and their treatment of LGBTTIQ communities, women, and anything outside of the traditional. They sold us, for a vote ”.

Let the legislature know that communities, women and their allies are prepared. We will not step back. We are not going to give up our rights and we will not allow prosecution or discrimination from the benchConcludes the statement.

For its part, the Matria project wondered whether it would get the chairmanship of a committee “that it must guarantee human rights to the senator who has an openly conservative agenda”.

“How did the senator conclude that this was the best option?” The statement ends.

In a statement released mid-morning, Matria and CABE released a statement expanding their complaint. In short, they accused Dalmau Santiago of ignoring the claims of fairness and described the nomination of Rodríguez Veve as a contradiction to the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) election promises.

They also accused the PPD of being the heir “of the worst” of the last government I entered the Senate.

“The rights of women and LGBTTIQ people have been protagonists in the public discussions of the last four years and especially in the pre-election debates. All public discussions showed that a social consensus has been built in favor of equality and that as a country there are more and more spaces in which we believe and work to safeguard the human rights of women and other populations who are in the discrimination in our country. In fact, candidacies like those of María Milagros Charbonier (who lost the primaries before being arrested), those of Carlos Delgado Altieri himself and Nayda Venegas Brown were rejected because of their actions and statements from a conservative and anti-rights court, ”assured Isabel Ramos Hernández of the Women’s Route (Matria).

When we read the document describing the Committee on Life and Family Affairs, it appears to have been prepared from the office of Senator Rodríguez Veve himself and it is a shame that the Senate Presidency has accepted it and empowered it to make decisions. to take on matters related to the family book of the Civil Code and our families in general. It is embarrassing in that it indicates carelessness and inconsistency between words and actions on the part of the Presidency, but it is also offensive to women’s and human rights organizations that have had to fight against a poorly-done civil code and violently against several for the past four years. families, against bills such as the PS950 that violated the right to abortion, those of Religious Freedom that attempted to authorize discrimination, and those of Reparative Therapies that – like the recognition of individual freedoms – were designed to subjugate homophobic families to their minors physical and psychological violence, ”added lawyer Amárilis Pagán Jiménez of Proyecto Matria.

Pagán said Rodríguez Veve’s agenda is “violent and threatens the physical and emotional integrity of minorities such as women and LGBTTIQ people.”

In the case of the organization La Mesa Aborto Libre PR, spokesman Edda López Serrano questioned the roles that will be fulfilled by the Commission for Life and Family Affairs and the appointment of Rodríguez Veve as chairman.

“I hope the issues being addressed by this Commission relate to the conditions that promote inequality that people face, including the invisibility of social problems resulting in discrimination, violence and mistreatment of women and LGBTTQI + people,” said he in written statements.

Senate President José Luis Dalmau has barred the votes of several sectors from appointing Senator Rodríguez Veve to this position. It is to revive the legislatures’ attacks on our sexual and reproductive rights of the past four years: José Luis Dalmau has replaced Nayda Venegas Brown’s role with Senator Rodríguez Veve¨, said López Serrano, referring to the battle they fought from the Mesa Aborto Libre. PR to stop the PS950.

The new day he asked Dalmau Santiago to respond to these statements. Likewise, this medium asked for an interview with Senator Rodríguez Veve to explain her work schedule.

When Rodríguez Veve voiced his vote for Dalmau Santiago as Senate President, he indicated that he did so because he had committed to “Make way for” measures to regulate abortion “and protect the lives of both children in the womb and mothers-to-be.”

The new day He has tried, without success, to interview Rodríguez Veve about what he means by regulating abortion. He publicly met with the President of the House of Representatives, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, when the legislature foresaw that he saw it “difficult” to pass a law to regulate abortion. He argued in a radio interview that the issue had been “surpassed” in the past four years, but promised to implement the measure, understood as a process of public hearings.

Rodríguez Veve responded to him through his social networks, indicating that Hernández Montañez’s position seemed unfortunate.

“If you are in favor of abortion without any regulation, the most important thing is for the country to know your position,” he said. “In the same way, the country will know who the legislators are who are for life at all times and under all circumstances.”

In late November, Rodríguez Veve and Proyecto Dignidad’s representative, Lisie Janet Burgos, sent a letter to then-elected Governor Pedro Pierluisi indicating that an emergency announced by him should be generalized because it is his duty to protect the lives of everyone. . Puerto Ricans. They pointed out that the initiative is only intended to promote ideological agendas of certain groups and that it is intended to use public funds to promote education with a gender perspective.

They also pointed out that violence “has no gender, no age and the causes are diverse.”

They also argued against Pierluisi that gender ideology consists of ‘the idea that people are not born as men or women and that our sexual identity depends solely on our self-perception, that is, on the purely subjective self-definition of the person. As if this, that is, as if inculcating this unscientific conception of human sexuality, will solve or tackle the problem of violence against women ”.