(LifeSiteNews) — On Wednesday, December 30, 2020, Argentina’s Senate passed a law legalizing abortion. After a marathon 12-hour session, legislators voted 38-29 (with one abstention) to permit abortion on demand until 14 weeks, and after that point in the cases of rape or danger to the mother’s life. Overnight, Argentina went from a pro-life stronghold to one of the most permissive abortion regimes on the continent.
Only two years earlier, lawmakers had voted 38 to 31 against legalizing abortion after a debate that took over 15 hours; in the months leading up to the vote, pro-lifers had launched what would become known as the “Light Blue Wave” movement. During one “National Day of Action,” more than 3 million pro-lifers had rallied across the country. But in 2019, leftist candidate Alberto Fernández was elected president and vowed to legalize abortion.
“Safe, legal, and free abortion is now the law,” Fernández tweeted after the vote. “Today, we are a better society that expands women’s rights and guarantees public health.” Pro-life activists suspected that Fernández had worked hard to push legislators to legalize abortion by any means necessary.
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Since then, we have discovered much that sheds light on Fernández’s view of “women’s rights.” Earlier this month, former First Lady Fabiola Yanez filed a legal complaint against the former president, who left office in 2023. She alleges that Fernández beat her during his time in office; President Javier Milei, the pro-life libertarian who replaced him, immediately highlighted the “progressive hypocrisy” of leftist politicians who preached “the scam they call ‘gender policies’” while behaving appallingly in their private lives.
In addition to the alleged domestic violence that included vicious slapping and a black eye, it has also been revealed that “pro-choice” champion Alberto Fernández also allegedly forced his wife to have an abortion.
While testifying at the Argentinian consulate in Madrid, Spain, the 43-year-old former journalist accused the former president of “reproductive violence” for forcing her to have an abortion in 2016. Yanez says she felt both “surprise” but also “joy” when she became pregnant – but Fernández had a different response.
Fernández immediately pressured her to abort the baby, telling her bluntly: “We have to sort it out. You have to have an abortion.” Yanez said: “This time regarding our unborn child, he told me, ‘This can’t happen, I’m in shock.’” Then, Yanez says, he began to “ignore her completely.” Eventually, she succumbed to his pressure and had the abortion. She now says it was “the worst decision.”
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“Fabiola Yáñez has shown great courage in speaking out about the pressure she was put under to have an abortion,” Catherine Robinson of Right To Life UK said in a press release:
Fernández, however, behaved in an utterly self-serving manner and apparently pushed the mother of his child into making the choice he wanted. Not only did he allegedly pressure his partner into having an abortion, but he played a pivotal role in introducing abortion into Argentina.
This story, unfortunately, is not unusual. For men like Alberto Fernández, abortion is not so much a woman’s right as a man’s prerogative. In abortion regimes, feticide is sold as “choice” – and inevitably, for the tens of thousands of women who tread the weary path to the abortion clinic, it becomes an obligation.
If an unborn baby is a woman’s “choice,” men like Fernández and so many others consider the baby to also be a woman’s problem. Fernández’s abortion crusade wasn’t a campaign for women’s rights. It was a defence of lethal selfishness and “reproductive violence.”
