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"Thanks to this president, Argentina has advanced with very important laws — marriage equality, gender identification, death with dignity. The debate over abortion will happen. It’s more complicated; it’s not easy. The president is against it, but she’s also said it’s a matter for the Congress to decide," Diaz said.
"I think we’re getting close, but you have to look at this debate in terms of religious politics in Latin America. The Catholic forces opposed to abortion are so strong that they barely got it passed in Uruguay, which is the least religious country in the region."
Meanwhile Friday in La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province, Diaz said, another rape victim was turned away when doctors told her the entire hospital had a conscientious objection to forming abortions.
"This is really serious," Diaz said. "What this amounts to is a refusal to comply with government policies."
Later Friday, the provincial public hospitals director, Claudio Ortiz, announced that the woman was able to get her abortion after all Friday morning, and clarified that "the hospitals guarantee the realization of this practice, even though there may be conscientious objectors" among the staff.
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