Young Pregnant Pro-abortion Leader in Argentina Dies after Legal Abortion

Jeanne Smits : Apr 20, 2021
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Her party campaigned for legal abortion, and while it is not clear whether she personally joined pro-abortion "green scarf" rallies, her party had always told her that legal abortion is "safe" and a question of personal choice.

(La Paz, Argentina) — [LifeSiteNews.com] A 23-year-old woman died in a hospital in San Martin in the Argentinian province of Mendoza last Sunday, four days after having undergone a legal abortion in the neighboring town of La Paz. Maria del Valle Gonzalez Lopez' death was attributed to hemorrhage and general septicemia according to what is known of her autopsy report. Judicial investigations are under way to determine whether her death was related to the abortion and whether she fell victim to medical malpractice. What is known is that she was a rising figure in the pro-abortion "Union Civica Radical," a historic Argentinian left-wing party affiliated with the Socialist International, having been elected last year as president of the Youth section of the Radicals in La Paz. (Image: Maria del Valle Gonzalez Lopez /via LifeSiteNews)

Del Valle is the first mother who is known to have died since abortion on demand was made legal in Argentina earlier this year. She was a university student studying social work and had a boyfriend. Her party campaigned for legal abortion, and while it is not clear whether she personally joined pro-abortion "green scarf" rallies, her party had always told her that legal abortion is "safe" and a question of personal choice.

Feminist organizations in Argentina have not commented on the news, nor have they warned, in the wake of the tragedy, that legal abortion kills women.

In August 2018, the Youth sections of the UCR held a press conference indicating that they had "demanded" that Argentinian Senators should vote for the legal abortion or "Voluntary interruption of pregnancy" law that was being discussed in Parliament at the time. Luciana Rached, national leader of the Radical Youth, proclaimed: "Illegal abortions have always existed and still do. Women have always had abortions. The approval or the rejection of this law will have an impact on the lives of the tens of thousands of women who each year suffer from the consequences of illegal abortion: infections and deaths."

That draft law was rejected, but a new one came before the Argentinian Parliament last year with the support of the country's new president, Alberto Fernandez, and was adopted in December. Legal abortion on demand up to 14 weeks' gestation came into effect in January. Had it not been approved, perhaps "Mari" del Valle Gonzalez Lopez would still have been alive today. It was most probably a legal abortion that led to infection and her untimely death—besides killing her unborn baby... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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