2023-10-04 23:15:10
Due to not reaching a sufficient number of signatures, the Just Cause feminist movement – which achieved the decriminalization of abortion by the Constitutional Court in February of last year – asked to archive an anti-abortion referendum promoted by two female members of the Liberal Party.
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This is the proposal of former councilor Sara Castellanos, who is part of the International Charismatic Mission (evangelical church), and the current candidate for the Bogotá Council, Clara Lucía Sandoval. According to the group, the initiative does not have enough citizen support to keep it going.
The so-called “Referendum on life” proposed modifying article 11 of the Constitution, in order to make it explicit that the right to life begins from conception. To succeed, he had to collect about two million signatures, but, as Causa Justa mentioned, they did not succeed.
A September 6 report from the National Registry of Civil Status indicates that only just over 1.6 million signatures were accepted. In that sense, the Just Cause movement points out that, of that amount, 37.7% was invalidated for different reasons: such as duplicate records or discrepancies between the data of the people who signed.
The movement, which includes several women’s and human rights organizations, assured that the initiative should be archived. Not only because it did not reach the number of supports required for any referendum, but because the promoting committee did not present any written contradiction against the results of the Registry’s report, even though it had until September 13 to do so.
“Considering these circumstances, the Causa Justa movement would hope that the process of the initiative would be suspended, as happened in May of this year with the initiative promoted by the Centro Democrático, Conservador and Colombia Justa Libre parties, and which was shelved for not reaching enough signatures,” Causa Justa stressed.
???? A little of what we experienced this #28S, again joining forces in the streets to defend what we have conquered ????. Thanks to @GabPonc for the music and the agitation ???? and as always, to @RostroCollective for articulating and convening the collective conspiracy for freedom ✊???? pic.twitter.com/1pdQWcqMbM
— Just Cause for Abortion (@causajustaco)
October 1, 2023
On May 17, the Registrar’s Office published Resolution 10109 with which the “Pro-Life Referendum” was archived, whose spokesperson was former senators Milla Romero and María del Rosario Guerra, among other politicians related to conservative sectors.
At the time, the entity clarified that the minimum number of signatures required as support is just over 1.95 million, a figure that the promoters did not reach as of April 15, when their deadline for collecting supports expired.
Currently, in Colombia the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (IVE) is decriminalized until the 24th week of gestation (approximately six months), in accordance with Sentence C-055 of 2022 of the Constitutional Court.
The high court resolved a lawsuit filed by the Causa Justa group, which said it continues to monitor what happens in this regard.
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