33 deputies sign the project that equates abortion after 22 weeks to the crime of homicide, with a greater penalty than rape
Among the 33 co-authors PL (bill) 1,904 of 2024what changes the Penal Code to equate abortion after 22 weeks to the crime of homicide, 12 are women. The list includes federal deputies from 9 parties: PL, PP, MDB, Republicans, Union Brazil, PRD, Forward, PSDB It is PSD.
Last Wednesday (June 12, 2024), the Chamber of Deputies approved an urgent request for the project. The President of the House, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), will choose a woman from Centrão to be the rapporteur of the text, according to the Power360. The name must be defined by party leaders next Tuesday (June 18).
Here are the 12 deputies who signed the “anti-abortion” bill:
Here are the other 21 authors of the project:
PL “ANTIABORT”
The urgency of project he was approved in symbolic voting – when there is no identification or counting of the votes of the deputies. Without being announced, the quick vote took place in 23 seconds.
Currently, abortion can be done in the cases provided for by lawcharacterized by 3 situations:
- risk to the mother’s life;
- rape;
- and pregnancy with an anencephalic fetus.
However, in all 3 cases there is no gestational age limit for terminating the pregnancy.
The bill being processed in the Chamber of Deputies establishes that women are penalized with up to 20 years in prisonwhile, In cases of rape, the penalty is up to 10 years in prison in current legislation.
Furthermore, the text also establishes that, even if the pregnancy is the result of rape, termination will not be permitted if the fetus is considered “viable”, that is, capable of surviving outside the uterus.
According to data released by the Brazilian Yearbook of Public Security 2023, in 2022, Brazil had the highest number of records of rape and rape of vulnerable people in history, with 74,930 victims. Of these, 6 in 10 victims are vulnerable aged 0 to 13. Here’s the complete of the study (PDF – 10 MB).
With the urgency approved, the proposal can be voted directly by the plenary, without needing to be discussed in the thematic committees of the Lower House. PL interlocutors they say that the text can be approved by more than 300 votes.
The approval of urgency led to criticism and protests in capitals of the country and in social mediaincluding against Arthur Lira. After the negative repercussion, the deputy Sóstenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ), said he will propose in the text an increase in 20 years for the crime of rape.
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