Macri eliminates National Reproductive Health Program in Argentina.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri signed new decree eliminating the National Sexual Health and Responsible Parenthood Program, which implemented policies protecting women's reproductive rights and extended reproductive health coverage and education to the poor.
The new decree, 114/2016, was published on January 12 in the Official Gazette and withdraws the program's mandate. Established by congressional passage in 2002, the bill was achieved after years of struggle on the part of organizations defending the rights of women and sexual minorities.
Speaking to Página/12 today, Secretary of Gender for the CTA labor federation (the nation's second largest) and member of the Advisory Board of the Program, Estela Díaz, said that this new decree "endangers the continuity of the supply of essentials such as contraception, as well the training programs for the formation of health teams in poor communities."
Among the objectives of the program was to achieve universal sexual and reproductive health, reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality, prevent unwanted pregnancies, promote sexual health of adolescents, guarantee access to information and services related to sexual health, and educate young people as to responsible procreation, among other issues.
According to sources, the Macri administration denied that the program would disappear. Nevertheless, the rescission of the program, as published in the Official Gazette, was unequivocal and was issued without any complementary decrees to mitigate its impact.
The Buenos Aires news daily Pagina/12 had reported that in the days before the appearance of the decree, program staff had been ordered by the new authorities at the Ministry of Health, headed by Minister Jorge Lemus, to suspend all activities.
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Another decree by Tin-pot Macri - and this one was at the top of the Opus Dei's wish list. The Macri official who many believe is responsible for this new policy, Dr. Abel Albino, thought of the reproductive health program as "assisted fornication." http://www.democraticunderground.com/110845136
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He's an open admirer of the 1976-83 dictatorship - which ruined the country's economy under a mountain of bad debts from the deregulated financial sector (sound familiar?), but made the Macri family very rich through padded contracts and insider information.
He even named his party, the PRO, after this dictatorship (known in Argentina as el Proceso).
As to the subject of reproductive health, we're all familiar with the way right-wing Catholics feel about the subject - particularly those Catholics that belong to the fanatical Opus Dei, which unfortunately is quite powerful in Latin America.
Their real problem, to paraphrase the good doctor there, is that they need some "assisted fornication" themselves. 
I hope destiny will find a way to shove all that hostility toward human beings these clowns are riding like brooms, and shove it all back up where it belongs.
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