In the city of Querétaro, dozens of feminists from various groups, including Adax Digitales, marched this Sunday afternoon demanding legal abortion in the state, as part of the Global Day of Action for Abortion.
Specifically, they demanded that local representatives eliminate those articles from the Querétaro state Penal Code that classify abortion as a crime.
To the beat of drums, some wearing green scarves and others wearing purple, the feminists began the march around 5:00 p.m. from Alameda Miguel Hidalgo and ended at Plaza de la Corregidora. “Conscious woman, join the contingent!”; “The police don’t protect me, my friends protect me!”; “It’s going to fall, it’s going to fall, the patriarchy is going to fall!” and “Sir, madam, don’t be indifferent, women are being killed in front of people,” were some of the slogans the feminists chanted while holding banners in support of ILE.
In the Plaza de la Corregidora, they read a statement highlighting the urgent need for the legislators to reform the Querétaro state Penal Code to eliminate Articles 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, and 142, which criminalize women for having abortions.
They pointed out that despite winning the injunction 79/2023, which ordered the non-application of these articles, women continue to be criminalized in the state of Querétaro.
They criticized the justices and magistrates, “sitting in their comfortable seats,” for effectively obstructing the injunction.
“Criminalization does not protect life; it only persecutes and condemns the most vulnerable.”
They recalled the case of Esmeralda, a minor who a year ago was on the verge of jail for having a spontaneous abortion (that is, not voluntary or induced) of a baby born of rape. Her attacker was never investigated, prosecuted, or tried for the crime he committed.
They also pointed out that “all the authorities have failed us: the representatives of the Querétaro Congress, where our initiatives in favor of legal abortion are frozen; where there are such ridiculous and absurd figures who dare to openly say that as long as they are there, abortion will not be allowed in the state.”
They commented that the Federal Government has not kept its promise to decriminalize abortion throughout the country, despite holding the majority in both the Chamber of Deputies of San Lázaro and the Senate of the Republic.
Source: jornada
