The veto imposed by Vázquez to the Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health was as surprising as the ringing of an alarm clock that they themselves have scheduled, Vazquez is not characterized by never recant nor subject their authority much less in public, but on the contrary, for his remarkable-perhaps the only remarkable characteristic of his personality, ability to accumulate power through the quality which Brecht assigned to the terrible leaders: be indispensable. The militants who have been FA who believed until the last moment an authoritarian egomaniac as Vazquez was leaving noticeable how his last act in office, allowing you to fold the hand on an issue which had been transparent and clear, was the stuff of dreamers or assholes who still do not understand the nature of the political apparatus that armed anti-democratic. While the veto and without the party try any extreme measures that could force its removal, poor women will abort in despicable conditions and die with their most sensitive areas infected, perforated and gangrenous, being crippled for life or paradox of providing pro-life death sterilized permanently. This year in particular the number of women killed or permanently damaged by illegal abortions was slightly lower than the average of previous years, which was considered in some circles as a breakthrough.
But that is not a merit of the policies advocated by Vázquez health but rather on the use, illegal for the current legislation supported by the veto-of misoprostol, prescribed and distributed many times by doctors, union that is overwhelmingly in favor of legalization, contrary to what seems to hold Vázquez to rely on their training to apply the veto, and whose members, particularly the public hospital as Pereyra Rossell, have to play on the edge of the underground and the threat of dismissal, if not jail hanging over their heads, but moving forward based solely on personal experience and empathy to their helpless patients.
The fact that the number of women dying in illegal abortions has decreased is irrelevant, a preventable death is an enormous amount of death, and now each of these deaths will be directly responsible for Vázquez and who sustain their power within the FA, which need to be reminded at every opportunity and every time I go into the public arena, but, being something very serious and inexcusable, poor people die for many reasons for failing health, which is a scourge of capitalism in general, and perhaps the case of illegal abortions is not a symptom of the real dilemma that revolves around abortion, and in world terms is even more important than the number of victims of malpractice. ***
The real focus of the discussion about the legalization of abortion does not happen in reality, despite bad that the militants of the legalization-or by eliminating the risks of illegal practice or by law self-determination of women about what grows in your body-two Moreover arguments irrefutable but what the groups "pro-life" have become the focus of debate. And that's not bad it is, ie, about the human capacity to decide entirely on the circumstances of their reproduction, and the existence or non-forces or powers beyond the powers of decision.
other words, the core of the argument is right or not humans know to eliminate all forms of human life unconscious and without brain activity (which in medical terms is equivalent to no human being or yet to be really). It's as ugly as it sounds, but euphemisms distract from their real emergency: if the man thinks survive as a species at least a couple of centuries in terms of minimum quality of life, is absolutely essential to the humanist religious fundamentalism sanctifies all human life forms, including those that have become a continual torture (the unfortunate private patients of euthanasia) or those that differ only in the state of amoeba and which are only a possibility of development, as fetuses lacking nerve endings that can be aborted in the first three months of its existence. If not understood and accepted that these fetuses, or those terminally ill and unresponsive, are human life, then it is absolutely useless to fight for the right to its conclusion.
When the defense of abortion defense is a "necessary evil" or an extreme solution, it becomes a doomed defense, it is clear that surgical intervention as intrusive and traumatic symbolically is not desirable for anyone and that in a country with adequate sex education , and unrestricted use of "morning after pills" - the abortions would be almost nonexistent. However, the argument that accepts this solution is particularly traumatic in some ways reinforces its status as crime, but crime must at last and their identification with the filicide. Ie the same arguments of their opposition. But these are philosophical terms in which it could have and as a nation publicly discussed the issue of abortion, and this problem was settled in purely political terms. So you better talk about politics. ***
Vázquez concludes its mandate fairly positive numbers, and that in the hands of a party that was not eaten internally by the various wills of power of the forces that compose it, and if not face to all unpresentable that make up the opposition, the Frente Amplio would ensure a new government without even bothering to campaign. Beyond the general merits of government attributable to the strength program and independent of the will of the president, the intrinsic merits of appear-past president of the troupe that strives for his re-election as if it were Tito on the eve of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, as very limited, if not nonexistent. Among the initiatives or policies that fit to attribute to her figure, at most it would recognize a certain firmness when tie the rope to the bag of cats in which converts FA measured when the cock. Something that is difficult to distinguish whether it is a merit of a statesman or just a continuation of the process of accumulation of personal power that led to this driver football boxes to the post of chief of the left maximum beating politicians more educated, prepared and intelligent.
The rest of his work, I repeat, not the government of the FA but what can be attributed to his personal initiative, ranging from the irritating and pathetic, as their individual interventions were limited to years of intrigue, an abominable cipayesca separatist attitude in relation to foreign policy, a clear willingness to lobby in relation to everything that has to do with your guild, that some unscrupulous call "white mafia" - and to have undertaken a disproportionate and discriminatory combat to smokers. And, of course, fighting tooth and nail by the distinctive workhorses of the Essene sect with whom it collaborates, whether the monument enshrining one of the main disseminators of AIDS - Karol Wojtyla , whose opposition to condom use during the beginning of the pandemic of the disease possibly responsible for hundreds of thousands (or millions) of deaths, or engaging with the most reactionary, obtuse Montevideo bishops in recent decades, standing on their side and not that of those who elected him.
Why Vazquez decided to make such a move is unpopular among his fellow and the willingness to face all of their legislators? It is somewhat difficult to discern, as it pointed me someone with greater power political observation that I, Vázquez Catholicism does not seem really that far-for the time being is not a regular practicing their rituals, as well as belonging to another sect of anti-Catholic tradition as the Masons, as to justify such an attitude determined. Maybe it was to avoid problems within his family, where there seems to be more dogmatic views, may have been one of their demonstrations of power egomaniac, maybe it was really a moral and ethical conviction based on personal values .
Vázquez is a scientist, specifically an oncologist, which places it in an uncomfortable place for science, since it belongs to a branch of it that has failed or understand or control their object of study and beyond merit and partial successes, and valuable, no doubt, to roughly it can be considered as a even defeated branch of medicine. This sad quality, one would expect, should permeate its practitioners of a certain humility, a certain understanding for the mystery of things and the absence of definitive answers. Say, a constant awareness of one's own shortcomings and inabilities. The fear of death and that sentence is almost unquestionable that the cancer has become oncologists in possibly the most appreciated medical specialists ordinary citizens, that the varnish with their hopes, as the embodiment of their faith and trust in those who may be the last barrier of contention between them and a premature and ugly death. No wonder then that some oncologists are confused on the way and blinded by the gratitude of those who manage to save, it says forgetful of superb quality and inexplicable yet incurable disease that fight.
Personally I can not share the beatification of oncology, neither Vasquez nor any of his colleagues managed to save the carcinoma to my father or my grandmother or my grandfather or my dog, so I let the not give any oncologist the lowest type of intellectual or moral authority over me, much less say over the future contents of the uterus of any of the women I know or not. And much less if one articulates their supposed philosophical authority with a dogmatic religious belief and fantasy. Say, as I'm concerned no Vázquez per se of letters minimum of trust and respect they impose on non-coercive manner moral authority. As regards my family and their special experience, all you could tell someone of your profession is: fuck off, loser . Thanks for nothing.
But that's me, which may be suffered by his family full of dead, more interesting is to see what he saw in which sustained its symbolic power and still sustain it, despite being remarkably frank about this issue. That is, his promise that he was going to go through the parties of their minds. ***
forces would be desirable Uruguay feminists do a serious self-criticism with respect to the almost complete inability of mobilization that showed in the days of the vote. Being a crucial issue in relation to their rights and fighting against patriarchal hindrances remain everywhere, is almost frightening to see that a ghost as the Pastor Marquez convened more people and enthusiasm that all women's organizations together. There is some explanation for this and that goes beyond laziness, and that is a phenomenon that extends to many levels of activism, having delegated much of the active structures in the hands of leftist political representatives made the confusion, contradictions and the failure of most of them had an effect on the bases, which were emaciated, disjointed, unmotivated and lacking. In the shadow of some assholes who rapped on the right to life and joy. I was not, I admit, but in this case not by laziness but by the same respect I have for the individual decisions of women on their bellies, it was his battle, sisters, that's had to fight in the street you.
The massive failure of women activists, and especially its political representatives, was to not be able to make this issue important and, I repeat the word, crucial. Gap in its latest issue published studies claiming Bottinelli something I'm more than willing to believe, while the enemies of the legalization of abortion were extremely clear in its desire not to vote or go to any force that would support such legalization , supporters conceded that it may continue to vote for a force that did fail this initiative. Discipline loser left or spirit, the truth is that this is always radiated in the forces that supported the legalization and particularly the political cadres that promoted in parliament. In the days before the vote and the pending threat of veto, several legislators and ministers from the Socialist Party plump photographed signing the useless - and unnecessary except as a public demonstration of unconditional re-forms of Vázquez. Questioned about the daily, which deigned to answer explained that one thing was one thing and another another, and one of them is sincere, saying, "I care that this law approve, but I care about winning. "" Win what? legislator's salary?
sometimes I was accused of sexist because of a taste for provocation that has my sense of humor and my firm belief in the importance sexual differentiation in some respects, but in reality I was raised in a matriarchy almost total in the women made all the decisions on family-run. I was raised by young widows, clandestine militant dictatorial times, women who worked eight hours studying other eight and raised their children in the middle, independent professionals, divorcees divorces premature embarrassing times, alternates improvised figures paternal SUV fighters, crazy relying more on culture than in the makeup, her feminism feminist unconscious, mines never accepted an order from a man not by fear or love, and never relied on one for their material support or spiritual. Iron and diamond mines belonging to a sex that no one would describe as "weak" and among those who had not demeaning insult that "maintained." These were my grandmothers, my aunts and my mother. So I hope they are my nieces and my daughters, should have them.
And perhaps for that education that few saddest sights I have seen in the Uruguayan political docility with women legislators from the FA agreed to the imposition of the veto by Vázquez, going so far as the figure of Maria Julia Muñoz -a doctor and Minister of Health whose position in favor of legalization is known-that was almost running his signature on the veto, making it legal. So did Hector Lescano and this character so dear to journalists is Victor Rossi, but the action of Muñoz-a woman who also has made Vázquez bevel more than half a dozen times interfering with the decisions of his ministry and forcing her to backpedal on his claims, was a humiliating spectacle that compared any of those girls who undergo bukkake sessions filmed seem a worthy worker. But it is not the only, we must remember that although its parliamentary representation as a minority, all the FA is a predominantly female party in a country with more women than men, and particularly the female vote Vazquez has been traditionally strong and vital.
Trying to see a glass half full where there was only a dirty mark clears, Margarita Percovich -perhaps the FA table firmer in defending this law-was pleased that at least two viable candidates to the presidency by the FA - José Mujica and Astori - had voted in favor of legalization. But Percovich overlooking something obvious, even the most optimistic of the Frente considered feasible to have a parliamentary majority after the next election and have to be an absolutely naive to believe that the opposition center-right, or that curiously always match right-will give their vote to pass a law. White Party has done, perhaps antibatllista mere tradition, the alliance with Catholicism one of its strongholds, and even sold his red veto-legalization during the rule of someone so little religious and Jorge Batlle - a change of four votes of the Civic Union pathetic. Ie, the veto of Vazquez kick this problem five or ten years into the future, and also closed the option to take it to referendum. If there was a negotiable issue and that it was essential to adopt in this legislature was the legalization of abortion, but the FA-even their female-was unable to take it seriously. Was it not perhaps to two representatives of the MPP-the majority party of the FA and the greater hunger for power, be about to derail the bill in the House of Representatives only to have a little extra TV and radio?
No one can convince me that has been organized the women's wing of the FA could have avoided the veto, even threatening to the collective resignation, even, why not, forcing the resignation of the president. But it seems that the greatest symbol of the current legal and political patriarchy, a remnant of the reactionary counter attempted almost eighty years ago to reverse some of the advances of secularism Uruguayan was not a cause to go to civil war and bet big. No, because what we want to win. And does not a man Vázquez sensitive to women? Is not that always says noted Uruguayan Uruguayans before in his speeches? Uruguayan , I put the saddle again.
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I was no great enthusiasm to the Freedom Square to protest the veto, there were more people in demonstrations during the voting but I could not be a lot of people really significant. Understandably, it's hard to rally people around a failure. But the act contained some of the features that explain the failure, based, as I commented a friend, the musical atmosphere, further reducing the already archaic hymns of the return to democracy and that it is like brand activism of old. It is difficult to abandon the old ways, but until this sound atmosphere is clearly symbolic of militancy so identified with the equipment party that even outside the party recalled that there were also women who aborted and were in favor of decriminalization.
heard Lilián Abracinskas call to hope and welcome the fact that the houses of representatives had returned to pass the bill giving a further sign of the usual majority view in favor of legalization, as if that mattered. I am sorry, but no sadder than drowned who died on the shore, especially if it was returned to the water who should have rescued. There was nothing to celebrate in Plaza Libertad, so I did not stay long.
Later a friend of mine confessed that she was a sad day when he won the vote as yellow to green in 89. I had to say that in some ways worse, because on that occasion at least had the consolation of not being an active part of that failure. That is to say, I did not vote or Tarigo Sanguinetti, but Vazquez and her too. To mourn the little room.
*** I repeat something, in praxis abortion is legal and without close monitoring promoted by the executive branch as at present, as during this administration abortion clinics have closed more than any of the above, it will continue to perform in huge quantities, hopefully in better health and, hopefully, protected by the wing more aware of the medicine, as in the aforementioned example of misoprostol. But in between, plus some lives will be lost very much. For the time will have lost the chance of a government rather geriatric features a historic endorsement sought by young people and women, relegated to the eternal politics. Will have also lost the only chance of this government of a country, which used to be a social laboratory makes Añares copy-to take a step forward compared to the fears and flaws of the continent, and point the way of self-determination against the growing forces of religious terror. That is, a sign of progress or at least the legal space of dissent for those younger generations who try to crack the country as if they were Cuban rafters and never have seen their land is at the forefront of anything.
missed a valuable chance to move forward on the continent by something much deeper than the repressive idiocy of being the first "smoke free" of Latin America could have given a light signal in a region that is covered culturally by the cloak of Catholicism that swept their original cultures and whose curse is so powerful that even in countries with indigenous majorities or left their taboos remain. I wrote some Argentine friends in the days of the vote, happy that the country would dwarf stepped clear and evident in the direction of the Enlightenment which at one time was cutting edge. Two days later he wrote again astonished, not understanding anything. "It's like Cobos," he said, "is not so rare. Only in this case we do not know whom to obey. But it's not a surprise."
Maybe because at some point the level was exemplary in continental and global terms, can be considered as one of the great tragedies of the decline in Latin America Uruguay culture, with its once excellent public education crushed between a right which considered hostile and therefore worthy of its economic strangulation, and a left obsessed with control and reform as an area of \u200b\u200bideological formation. The signs of the deterioration and departure of a well-understood modernity are evident everywhere, from the inability of foreign investment companies to find well-trained technicians to desire instant emigration that if they are. Or the "slow but steady growth of the abominable" evangelical sects "covered in" tolerance "that allows them to use public airwaves payment. Or the multiplication of people so ignorant as to believe a speech so ridiculous and gross. Or the surveys that give a constant margin of popularity Vázquez 63%-much higher than its government, without the respondents to articulate more reason that the "good doctor's manhood" or their alleged "value" when to confront the abusive Argentine and other enemies of the nation. Daniela Couto entitled to post angry about the veto as "I do not love my country," a sentiment that increasingly extends between those who are tired of the Guampas burst against the conservative status quo-both sides of the political or power-that are still considered the most referred to decide the most intimate areas of the governed.
Elders and unable to fertilize females but, perhaps as a symbolic substitution, feel experts authorized to decide on young women's wombs. Some arrogant fools. A nation ruled by cowards, idiots and pedantic, elected by fools like me and all those who quote that line from Chandler says there is no worse trap than one prepares himself, and then began to dig the well. So far at least. ***
(Beyond cultural blight conditions listed in the preceding paragraphs, it is worth noting something that is both consequence and cause of that: the position of the press and political opinólogos. Saving leftist weeklies and the daily , virtually all of the Uruguayan media immediately lined up with anti-legalization forces, playing his speeches everywhere, and getting the ridiculous, Romay own channel, display of footage of "Silent Scream", the newsletter from 19.00 hours-or, as in the case of Fasano and muscle-flexing by the Republic-ever presidential authority, ignoring everything and making the agile to the outrage of the majority party and democracy. This scenario was only punctuated by warm statements TV of the aforementioned legislative representatives left a void analysis of the symbolic importance of what was going continental. Today, Monday, the news media and relegated to the past and politicians are just some samples of resignation when asked, and everyone comes back to what matters: the inner party and see how it will divide the electoral cake. These are our representatives.)
***
The FA have had my vote since I was old enough to enter a dark room, I never considered frontage, because that would imply to me that I produce a militant for laziness and I was never motivated, and identifying which I never wanted to take charge. But I've been your faithful voter, although I have voted in the election of a leader who did not respect, I have voted even before the evidence of bad municipal government, I have voted ignoring not only the absence of an environmental program, the only cause that I feel really identified, but the hostility of the government directly with the environment, I have voted against the class interests of my family, belonging to that stratum of academics was castigadísimo by the income tax to Although that would be laughable to consider them part of "those who have more" I voted against the blatant lies and inexplicable nonsense. The FA has my vote and I was his companion. But recent days occur which ended me to prove something that had suspected for some time, I do not like where you are going that route and that conviction has long confused with simple inertia.
years ago come the hard way being run under the guise of the lesser evil or partial merit, I have no doubt that in comparison with the brutality and the delay meant red white government after the dictatorship This administration may be logged for various beans, ranging from restoration of the essential dignity of wage bargaining to the late but welcome imprisonment of the beasts over the dictatorship. All good, but I can not afford to forget and / or excuse the arrogant exercise of religion in a country where secularism is the last shred of flag do I find worthy of flaming. I can not afford because I do not ignore the symbolic value and because while ground sign at the end justifies the means, the practice of power first and the principles later, I'm tired of touching me eggs without the slightest result. Of being subjected to blackmail Bullworth, that movie in which a Democratic presidential candidate confessed in an insane attack of sincerity about black militants thought he did not make a turd by them once they arrived the presidency, culminating in a "what you do they do? "Vote for the Republicans?". ***
My main disappointment is not with Vazquez, who as Bishop Cotugno has been completely faithful to their obscurantist views, but the bulk of the ruling party and its inability to prove a force for change as an issue which had a total consensus. There you go again to the facts, beyond what was announced or not, Vazquez vetoed a bill passed by 100% of their legislators. A party or political force that allows the betrayal from the dome-or how you can be referred to a leader who destroys a project approved represented by all-is a party that does not deserve to exist because there is no reason to do so and low reliability.
whole history of the rise in the FA Vázquez is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the Uruguayan left: a man intellectually mediocre and no more scrolls that his status as doctor and having earned a football a box area was chosen primarily for their popularity among women activists of a certain age, who considered even physically attractive as a candidate for a government of Montevideo which, before the vote splitting on the right between white and red, the appalling management red and natural capital's growth the left Montevideo, was easily obtainable. Although his administration as mayor was how poorly-established minimum deficit in the same despite markedly elevated in municipal taxes and handing out privileges without consideration for services left time bombs ready to become the union of the IMM a perfect machine for blackmail, his victory shocked the loser mentality of many leftists, who considered his trump card, displacing the noble figure of Liber Seregni , the last great man of Uruguayan politics. Despite failing twice as a presidential candidate, the aura of winning decreased Vázquez between the Frente and their ability to accumulate power, simply by the threat of abandoning his post "virtually destroyed a generation of aspiring young drivers, but this very exclusive accumulation was seen as a unifying factor of the FA, so the man went on to win the last election, an election-against the backdrop of social devastation left by Jorge Batlle had won up to a heady carnival should be a candidate for president, but many continued Frente attributing alleged masterminds the charisma of evangelist pastor Vázquez. The important thing was to win and then see, was the thought that was imposed on the left. Now, on that thought, "there was no room to think about who was being elected and what powers were granted to him?
I return to the above, there are no surprises, the issue of abortion was, as any issue related to freedom-considered minor and shelved between the accumulation of ambiguities proactive program that made up the bases, but sometimes it was questioned respect, Vazquez was crystalline state their opposition. So why was the candidate of the Frente women, especially those under President Batlle made the legalization of abortion their main subject of parliamentary debate? To win would have chosen to impose a fundamentalist Islamic veil? Or someone to take away the vote? Or imposing the droit de seigneur? What were they thinking the first and Uruguayan Uruguayans next?
Possibly they could twist the hand that could beat this stupid waste of a good doctor, that he would not be an issue crucial , it was a democratic party, which had a reasonable leader. They were wrong on everything except the first; could having twisted his hand, could in daring to play hard. But they did it for, and above all, representatives Frente this issue is not was crucial. At the end of the political career is a long career of swallowing toads, at best, and unwanted pregnancies may not be a priority for these policies already suffering from menopause. Or with a salary of legislation to ensure optimal conditions an abortion if needed.
Let's be honest, after last Thursday the only act that would be worth the Frente legislators and ministers would resign en masse to the FA-worthy people as Chifflet Sarthou or has done for much less, or as a condition of not doing the lifting of the veto. But that's not going to happen, and excuses do not go missing for that does not happen.
*** I am not a legislator nor a militant Frente, so I have no power in that nasty internal. I do not care, because experience has shown that legislators and activists had no power whatsoever in this matter. But in a society where participation in political decisions seem to be limited to vote, and as such be capable of eternal blackmail of the lesser evil, I made a decision about my decision that actually makes voice vote, which for My intention is exactly the same. Given what happened last Thursday and the following days, I decided that whatever the program or nominee-I will not vote for FA the next election.
's not a big threat, I suppose, but in fact this is my only weapon sensitive to these bureaucrats the power, my measly vote, which make public my simple promise that no matter how many achievements have supeustos to his credit, if not approved the legalization of abortion in this term, if not find a way to lift the veto, then I will not vote for the FA in the next election, and I'll put my eloquence in the service of others do not either. It's that simple, I know not much, but I know that every vote counts, especially in the upcoming elections. But I'll do it because it's been many years since I left San Juan Bautista and makes many years since I allow any chupacirios to decide my personal issues for me. So I practice my little veto, my Veritas, which is not to vote for women enemy governments and friends of the robes, and vote for parties that do not allow domestic treason or being infiltrated by enemy defenders of obscurantism. So go into the darkroom and I will bring about a card of the San Cono, or some similar ridiculous, deposit it my ballot in the box and I'll take care of my decision.
And if someone complains to me saying my alleged indirect collaboration with the reactionary forces, calmly ask him who the forces of reaction and where is the advancement of progressive forces. And if one of those chances it is found that a fraction of blank or chanted, outraged sectors from submission to authoritarianism demonstrated in recent days, had some interference in the election results, I offer to explain the reasons point by point outrage that the politicians involved, with a smile on his face and all the scorn that they can demonstrate.
