Argentina revisits tense abortion law debate

[shenmue]

https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-revisits-tense-abortion-law-debate/a-48943549

[sandensea]

1. They should've waited until next year though.

Elections this October should give the Peronist center-left quite a few additional seats in both the House and Senate.

They - and the smaller, left-wing parties such as the Leftist Workers' Front (FIT) - are strongly supportive of the legislation; but they're not yet anywhere near a working majority.

The Peronist center-right (the largest single faction in Argentina's Congress), are split down the middle - and Macri's right-wing "Let's Change" coalition is staunchly opposed.

The "Let's Change" caucus leader in the House, Nicolás Massot, even compared abortion rights to Dirty War-era disappearances 40 years ago, telling a congressman whose parents were killed when he was an infant that "even then we didn't dare abort you."

The "we" wasn't accidental: his family (wealthy landowners and newspaper publishers) were the principal instigators of the disappearances in their home city, Bahía Blanca.

That said, thank you for posting this, shenmue. We'll see where this goes.

[shenmue]

2. Thank you

[sandensea]

3. You're very welcome

I find Argentine politics very interesting. Never a dull moment.