At the entrance of the Congress, a plaque recalls to the parliamentarians that the Virgen de Luján is the patron of the Argentine political parties. In the country of Father Francisco, at the point of voting for the legalization of abortion, the Church is all dead.
With a media sanction received by the Chamber of Deputies on December 11, The Senate must vote this March for a voluntary interruption of the embargo until the 14th week of gestation. Los bandos’ n guns y en contra se muestran parejos. Two years ago, a similar phrase was introduced by the majority opposition of the senators, in the midst of an intense campaign by the Catholic and Evangelical Churches.
In these last days, both congregations have redesigned their tax with various concentrations and markets throughout the country.
I support each other
The Argentine Constitution guarantees the freedom of worship. A 1994 reform eliminated the need to belong to Catholicism in order to take over the presidency of the Republic. Without embarrassment, in its preamble the invocation to God, as well as the second article, which ensures the support of the governing body to the Catholic religion.
“The Catholic Church in Argentina has a great capillaryness. There is a very strong Catholic culture in the political world “, the sociologist Fortunato Mallimaci, author of” El mito de la Argentina laica “wrote to AFP. Catholicism, Politics and the State “.
“Religious groups van in busa of the support of the State and the State, when it is debilitated, bus support in the religious groups. The weight of the Catholic Church today is more political than religious“, enfatiza Mallimaci.
The constitutional provision is translated into practice as the Argentine State pays a bribe to the bishops and subsidy to Catholic education, which increases 36% of the teaching in the country, according to this specialist.
Mallimaci distaced, without embarrassment, that since the regression of democracy in 1983, Catholicism has lost influence, while “the evangelical world grows much”.
If there is a 2019 inquiry into religious denominations carried out by the National Council of Scientific and Technical Investigations (Conicet), 62.9% of Argentines declare themselves Catholic, 18.9% are religious and 15.3% are evangelical.
In this last democratic period, the divorce was approved (1987). I read an integral sex education education (2006), one for equal matrimony (2010), and a gender identity (2012).
La Iglesia y el aborto
In Argentina, the abortion was allowed in case of violation or the risk of life for the woman from 1921, when gobernaba the radical president (social democrat) Hipólito Yrigoyen. If the actual project is approved, the interruption of the embargo will be free until the 14th week of gestation.
“There is an opposition and a very large right of the Catholic Church, which will play” to impede the approval of the lie, said to AFP the constitutionalist Alfonso Santiago.
But in case it is approved, this expert is concerned that it is producing a rupture of the dialogue between the Church and the governor of the Center-Izquierdista Alberto Fernández, promoter of the law and who is happy about his good relationship with the father, antiguo obispo de Buenos Aires.
“I do not believe that there is a courtesy of the collaboration on other topics. I do not accept antiquity, when I approve of the equal matrimony”, Santiago replied.
A few months ago, Francisco’s father equated abortion with the contraction of a sicario, during this parliamentary debate in Argentina he was currently silent.
“There is a law that does not oblige. The problem that the plant in the Catholic Church is legalizing abortion is that which is committed in it, and there is no one in the State, so that its sons plan with a prohibition that will only be religious”, explain Mallimaci.
A Conicet survey in 2020 found that 22.3% of Catholics in Argentina think that the woman should have the right to abortion if she decides to do so, 55.7% believe that abortion should be allowed only in some circumstances and 17.2% return to all cases.
Evangelical Movement
The evangelical organizations led by 2018 multitudinous demonstrations of the contra- tions to the legalization of abortion.
“Tienen el impetu de los renacidos. Las manifestations celestes [contra el aborto, por el color del pañuelo con el que se identifican, Ndlr] “They are led by them, the Catholics do not move in this way,” Mallimaci said.
Pese a su crecimiento constante, las evangelicals gospels in Argentina “do not have the same political force that in other countries, as for example Brazil donated with a parliamentary bloc”, seals Santiago.
“It’s a very dispersed structure, with a lot of diversity, but with a lot of capacity to move people around,” he said.
The next occasion to demonstrate will be this March, in the wake of the Congress, in which the feminist militants of the Red Cross will also be concentrated., for a parliamentary day in which both sectors contain the alienation and no one can expect a result.