Rape victim child should be adopted, not terminated, argues MEP

Gorete Pereira was one of two women parliamentarians to vote in favor of the wedge design that hinders abortion after rape


Only five women attended the Bill of vote 5069/2013, which provides for the creation of obstacles to women rape victims being subjected to abortion. Three of them were contrary to the text, whose authorship is, among others, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ). Two favorable.

In Brazil, abortion is currently allowed in three cases: rape, if there is risk to the mother's life or, as decided by the Supreme Court (STF), if the fetus is anencephalic. Juazeiro natural (EC) and raised in a Catholic family, Gorete Pereira (PR) is the only among the legislators to be contrary to practice in any of the situations.

"Abortion, for me, is to take life, I can not change this opinion. Even in these cases allowed, which I know are very sad, I can not agree with abortion," he said in an interview with iG the deputy in the National Congress since 2007. "It is up to society to resolve the issue of abortion the fruit child after the abuse. The child can go to the adoption, any family can create it. What does not is to take a life, which, to me, is given from fertilization. "

Approved with ample slack in the Committee on Constitution and Justice and Citizenship of the House of Representatives last week - 37 votes to 14 - the project is grounded in a series of changes in Law No. 12,845, sanctioned by President Dilma Rousseff in August 2013. He still has to go to vote in the plenary of the House before going through the Senate and go to the sanction of the Chief
Executive.

At first, the text does not change in cases where the practice is regulated, but creates obstacles to the realization of it. The project includes, for example, the forensic examination obligation to prove the sexual violence suffered by the victim as a result of rape - today, the testimony of the person in the health service is sufficient for the procedure with no requirement for evidence.

In addition, the text calls for increased punishment to health professionals who treat or even inform these people of what to do in case of desire to have an abortion after rape - which can dangerously include the distribution of so-called morning-after pills.

In the current legislation, if a woman reports having been the victim of rape, you receive a free morning-after pill as a measure to prevent fertilization. This is called prophylaxis of pregnancy - a term that members of evangelical bases are also trying to eliminate the legislation which, in theory, create a link between pregnancy and disease.

"No use talking, I'm dead set against"
The MP spoke briefly to the report, saying he needed to attend a hearing in the House. But plunged throughout the interview that his opinion is formed and unchangeable, regardless of criticism from health professionals and women's groups.

To critics, the project points as the compulsory forensic examination to prove rape lead the victim to suffer one second sexual abuse, this time by state hands. Two of the deputies contrary to the text, Cristiane Brazil (PTB-RJ) and Erika Kokay (PT-DF) call their unconstitutional content and claim that it is not up to parliamentarians to legislate on the uterus of women.




Also criticize the fact that the State requires proof of a crime has proven traumatic for victims, which often leads them to avoid seeking help - something that possibly worsen the need to expose it after sexual abuse.

Gorete, however, does not consider these cases to form your opinion. It is against even the morning after pill, currently seen as a prevention of unwanted pregnancies, not as an abortive method.

"Any move that may give rise in advertising, reference, anything that might encourage the act, I am the opposite. And not only abortion, but also the party can get to it. It is an intimate forum for problem each. Note that most women who commit abortion do so because of men, for they do not want to take, flee them, "complains Mrs. "No use to talk to me about it. I'm very radical against abortion. I am of talking, but it is a position which will not give up."