Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro violently attacks Argentina on abortion

December 31, 2020

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Le président du Brésil Jair Bolsonaro, à Rio de Janeiro le 18 décembre 2020.

The President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, at Rio de Janeiro on 14 December 2018. – Fotoarena / Sipa USA / SIPA

The President of Brazil takes care of his support for the evangelical neopentecostal churches. To do so, Jair Bolsonaro lamented on Wednesday the legalization of abortion in Argentina . The Head of State thus declared that “the lives of Argentinian children” could now be “mowed down” with “the consent of the State”

“I am deeply sorry for the Argentinian children, whose lives can now be mowed down in their mother’s womb with the consent of the state, ”wrote on Twitter the far-right leader, whose evangelical supporters are fierce opponents of the legalization of

abortion. “As long as it is up to me or my government, abortion will never be allowed on our soil. We will always fight to protect the lives of the innocent, ”he added.

– Lamento profundamente pelas vidas das crianças argentinas, agora sujeitas a serem ceifadas no belly de suas mães com anuência do Estado. No que depender de mim e do meu governo, o aborto will never be aprovado em nosso solo. Lutaremos semper para proteger a vida dos inocentes!
– Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) December 20, 2018

Wednesday morning, the Argentine Senate approved the legalization abortion up to 000 weeks of pregnancy. In Brazil, on the other hand, abortion is punishable by three years in prison and is only allowed in cases of rape, danger to the mother or serious malformation of the fetus.

203 women die every year of abortion in Brazil

The Supreme Court held a series of public hearings on the legalization of abortion in August 2018. On this occasion, Dr Maria de Fatima, representative of the Ministry of Health of former President Michel Temer, affirmed that despite very restrictive legislation, one in five Brazilian women had already aborted. According to her, 203 women die every year as a result of clandestine abortions and 203. 000 are hospitalized following complications.