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Related: About this forumMacri eliminates National Reproductive Health Program in Argentina.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri signed new decree eliminating the National Sexual Health and Responsible Parenthood Program, which implemented policies protecting women's reproductive rights and extended reproductive health coverage and education to the poor.
The new decree, 114/2016, was published on January 12 in the Official Gazette and withdraws the program's mandate. Established by congressional passage in 2002, the bill was achieved after years of struggle on the part of organizations defending the rights of women and sexual minorities.
Speaking to Página/12 today, Secretary of Gender for the CTA labor federation (the nation's second largest) and member of the Advisory Board of the Program, Estela Díaz, said that this new decree "endangers the continuity of the supply of essentials such as contraception, as well the training programs for the formation of health teams in poor communities."
Among the objectives of the program was to achieve universal sexual and reproductive health, reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality, prevent unwanted pregnancies, promote sexual health of adolescents, guarantee access to information and services related to sexual health, and educate young people as to responsible procreation, among other issues.
According to sources, the Macri administration denied that the program would disappear. Nevertheless, the rescission of the program, as published in the Official Gazette, was unequivocal and was issued without any complementary decrees to mitigate its impact.
The Buenos Aires news daily Pagina/12 had reported that in the days before the appearance of the decree, program staff had been ordered by the new authorities at the Ministry of Health, headed by Minister Jorge Lemus, to suspend all activities.
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Another decree by Tin-pot Macri - and this one was at the top of the Opus Dei's wish list. The Macri official who many believe is responsible for this new policy, Dr. Abel Albino, thought of the reproductive health program as "assisted fornication." http://www.democraticunderground.com/110845136
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)ruled the continent in the 70's.
Note the Babylonian Cult that has nothing to do with Jesus Christ was behind this assault.
forest444
(5,902 posts)He's an open admirer of the 1976-83 dictatorship - which ruined the country's economy under a mountain of bad debts from the deregulated financial sector (sound familiar?), but made the Macri family very rich through padded contracts and insider information.
He even named his party, the PRO, after this dictatorship (known in Argentina as el Proceso).
As to the subject of reproductive health, we're all familiar with the way right-wing Catholics feel about the subject - particularly those Catholics that belong to the fanatical Opus Dei, which unfortunately is quite powerful in Latin America.
Their real problem, to paraphrase the good doctor there, is that they need some "assisted fornication" themselves.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)I hope destiny will find a way to shove all that hostility toward human beings these clowns are riding like brooms, and shove it all back up where it belongs.
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forest444
(5,902 posts)His record as Mayor of Buenos Aires is proof positive, as he spent 8 times as much on municipal publicity (most of it political) as on school and hospital infrastructure combined. He also diverted 30% or more of the revenue sharing Cristina Kirchner sent him away from its intended use for public services and works, and toward paying for outsourced o privatized services the city used to perform itself (usually at half the cost).
He also practically halted the progress his two center-left predecessors had made on Buenos Aires' urgent subway extension and public housing needs. All this, while quadrupling the municipal debt - at 10% interest in dollars.
His social policy, in particular, looks like something Torquemada might have endorsed.
I still hold out some hope he'll be a better President than Mayor - and yet every week just about, he does something to confirm my worst suspicions about him.
Qué será.