Andorra Abortion Bill: What Can the Bishop Co-Prince Do?
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In Andorra, the bishop of Urgell, the country's co-prince, faces pressure from the government to sign a bill that decriminalizes abortion, contrary to Catholic doctrine.
The president of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group, Susanna Vela Palomares, has presented three amendments to the Bill amending article 117 of the Penal Code with the aim of going beyond the Government's proposal and moving towards the effective recognition of women's sexual and reproductive rights. Vela believes that eliminating the responsibility […] The entry The PS wants to decriminalize abortion up to 14 weeks of pregnancy appeared …
Susanna Vela, president of the PS of Andorra, presents three amendments to the reform of the Penal Code and demands that people who assist women not be punished either
Subtitle: The group presents three amendments to the bill and defends that «it is not the same to stop punishing a woman as to recognize her right to decide» The Social Democratic parliamentary group wants to go beyond the decriminalization of women who decide to voluntarily interrupt their pregnancy and proposes that abortion should not be punishable during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. This is one of the main modifications that the presiden…
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