MADRID 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil approved this Wednesday a proposed amendment to the Constitution that seeks to protect the inviolability of the right to life “from conception”, which would put an end to the possibilities of legal abortion currently allowed by Brazilian legislation. .
The proposal, approved in the Constitution and Justice Commission with 35 votes in favor and 15 against, seeks to modify article 5 of the Constitution, adding that life is inviolable “from conception,” reports the Brazilian news agency.
The amendment, if passed, would end the permission to terminate pregnancy in cases of risk of death of the pregnant woman, pregnancy due to rape and fetal anencephaly, that is, malformation of the fetus’s brain. According to current legislation, outside of this case, abortion is punishable by sentences of between one and three years in prison.
A special commission will analyze the text, having up to 40 sessions to issue an opinion on the amendment. If approved, the proposal will be debated in the plenary session of the Lower House, where it would have to be supported by three-fifths of the 308 deputies that make it up, before passing through the Senate.
The session has been interrupted by a group of protesters who occupied the plenary session of the Commission shouting “a child is not a mother and a rapist is not a father” and “withdraw the PEC (Proposed Constitutional Amendment)”, forcing the parliamentarians to change rooms.
The members of the Commission were able to return after the president of the Commission, Liberal Party MP Caroline de Toni, asked the Police to evict the protesters and prohibit their entry.