The Organic Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health, which modifies the current regulation of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE), continues to take steps towards its approval, and today the amendments are presented in Congress.
The new law ends with two elements that, in the opinion of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, slowed down the exercise of the "right to free, free and universal abortion" of women in our country. These are the main novelties of the legislative norm that will regulate abortion.
From the age of 16 without parental permission
From the time it comes into force, minors between the ages of 16 and 17 will decide “freely about their maternity” and people with disabilities “have the right to decide the number of children they want to have”. It also suppresses any period other than the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy to end it.
In addition, eliminating the three mandatory days of reflection and includes a disabling leave for voluntary termination of pregnancy, as well as comprehensive and specialized assistance and accompaniment services.
Confidentiality
A novel is the protection of the data of women who abort. Article 23 of the previous regulation (of 2010) is modified and a striking question is added: the information trail that already exists will be destroyed. The data of the patient who has the center who has interrupted her pregnancy will disappear five years from the date of discharge. Your medical history will not be kept, only essential documentation.
No to surrogacy
With a more decisive position on the processes of surrogacy, the PSOE prevails in this Abortion to prosecute women who contract pregnancy by substituting the woman's uterus for another woman as a form of violence.
Register of objects of consciousness
In the same way, conscientious objection is guaranteed, which is regulated in the same way as in the Euthanasia Law to guarantee that there will apparently be personnel available for the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. Likewise, the norm recognizes that whoever declares an objector will be applied in public and private health.
In all public hospitals
The units will have to organize themselves and put all the necessary and sufficient personnel to perform an abortion in any province of the country, in a public service. If it is not possible, exceptionally there is only one, look for the draft of the law, it will be easier to go to a private clinic accredited by the public doctor.
free morning after pill
Among the measures included in this standard is also that health centers and sexual and reproductive health service centers will dispense the morning after pill free of charge.
It also includes the distribution of contraceptive methods free of charge in educational centers linked to campaigns on sexual education.
Leaves due to disabling regulations
On the other hand, this law dedicates a section to the rights related to the menstrual health of women in all stages of life, which includes the specific leave for women who have very painful and disabling periods, and who are in institutes, prisons , women's centers, civic centers or social centers, menstrual health products such as tampons, pads or menstrual cups are distributed free of charge with the aim of ending menstrual poverty.
Paid leave from week 39
Finally, this new standard includes measures to promote good practices in all stages of pregnancy, especially in childbirth and postpartum, among them, the incorporation of an antepartum leave from week 39 of gestation, which will not consume any maternity leave day
