Two women have burst in this Wednesday in the middle of full Senate celebrated this Tuesday shouting “abortion is sacred“The activists, belonging to Femen, who appeared bare-chested, have been evacuated from the Upper House room at the request of its president, Pedro Rollán. The surprising protest comes from the international summit against the interruption of pregnancy which will be held in the Senate on December 2.
Once the question time for the first vice president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, had ended, these two activists interrupted the plenary session with their proclamations against the anti-abortion summit hosted by the Upper House. “We have just protested on the Senate floor against the anti-abortion summit that will take place in this chamber on December 2. Abortion is sacred, now and always. Our bodies, our norms!” Femen said in a message on the Senate. social network
In this sense, PSOE, BNG, ERC, EH Bildu, PNV and Izquierda Confederal have requested the Upper House Table withdraw the authorization granted last July to a international association of anti-abortion politicians to celebrate the event. In a joint initiative for debate and voting in the Equality Commission, they also demand modify the guidelines for the transfer of roomsso that, respecting plurality and freedom of expression, criteria are established that do not threaten or promote the regression of rights and actions against current legislation.
On October 8, the Senate agreed to maintain the transfer of the room to the Values Policy Networkrejecting an appeal for protection from the PSOE against the authorization of the summit with the vote of four senators from the PP. The Board did not analyze the other five reconsideration documents presented by other groups, considering that these types of resources did not fit for an authorization to transfer a space.
The Network of Politicians for Values (PNfV) was authorized to hold its VI Transatlantic Summit in a Senate hall, in which parliamentarians from American, European and African countries who are against abortion “from the moment of conception.”
The PSOE did not oppose the transfer on July 17 at the Table, not realizing what the PNfV network was defending, since The transfer of rooms to various associations is commonbut then voted against the minutes of that session in the next one, held on September 3, and then also presented the appeal for protection.
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