Organizations warn that “we will not cede rights” to the creation of a Commission on Life and Family

Human rights organizations raised the flag yesterday after Senate President Jose Luis Dalmau Santiago awarded Senator for Dignity Project Joanne Rodriguez Veve a new commission called the Committee on Life Matters and family.

The resolution which sets out the jurisdiction of each commission details that it may investigate or study matters affecting the Civil Code’s Family Book, in addition to updates to government programs affecting the family. It will also address legislation related to prenatal rights and the development of those who “make up” life “in all its stages.”

On his Twitter account, the Broad Committee for Equity Research accused Dalmau Santiago of creating the new commission in exchange for Rodriguez Veve voting for him for the presidency of the Senate.

“From CAP we are not surprised that, at the expense of a vote, it is a free letter for the discrimination and persecution of LGBTTIQ + communities and diverse families by designating a commission of this nature to a senator the party makes us invisible, “the statement reads.” There seems to be no difference between traditional parties and their treatment of LGBTTIQ communities, women and all that comes out of the traditional. They sold us, by a vote. “

“Let the Legislature know that the communities, the women, and their allies are ready. We will not take a step back. We will not cede rights and will not allow persecution or discrimination from the bank“, Concludes the statement.

For its part, the Matria Project questioned the granting of the chair of a commission “that it should guarantee human rights to the senator who has an openly conservative agenda”.

“How did the senator conclude that this was the best option?” The statement concludes.

In a statement released in the middle of the morning, Matria and CAP issued a statement expanding their complaint. In short, they accused Dalmau Santiago of ignoring claims of equity and described the appointment of Rodriguez Veve as a contradiction to the electoral promises of the Democratic People’s Party (PPD).

They also accused the PPD of being the heir to “the worst” of the last penepé administration in the Senate.

“The rights of LGBTTIQ women and people were protagonists in the public discussions of the past four years and, in particular, of the pre-election debates. The whole public discussion showed that a social consensus has been built in favor of the equity and that as a country there are more and more spaces in which we believe and work to guarantee the human rights of women and other populations who live discriminate in our country. In fact, candidacies such as that of Maria Milagros Charbonier (who lost the primaries before being arrested), Carlos Delgado Altieri himself and Nayda Venegas Brown were rejected for their conservative and anti-rights actions and expressions, “said Isabel Ramos Hernández of the Ruta de the Women (Matria).

“When we read the document that describes the Committee on Life and Family Affairs it seems to have been created from the office of Senator Rodríguez Veve herself and it is a shame that the presidency of the Senate has welcomed it and given it the power to make decisions on matters related to the Civil Code family book and our families in general.It is embarrassing because it denotes carelessness and inconsistency between the word and the action of part of the presidency, but it is also insulting for women and human rights groups who in the past four years have had to fight against a badly done and violent Civil Code against diverse families, against bills like the PS950 that violated the right to abortion , the one of Religious Freedom that it tried to give permission to the discrimination and the one of reparative Therapies that – under color of the recognition to the individual liberties it tried to authorize homophobic families to put under their minors to violin physical and psychological knowledge “, added the lawyer Amarilis Pagán Jiménez of Project Matria.

Pagán said Rodriguez Veve’s agenda is “violent and attacks the physical and emotional integrity of minorities such as LGBTTIQ women and people.”

In the case of the organization La Taula Abortamento Lliure PR, its spokesman Edda López Serrano questioned the functions to be performed by the Committee on Life and Family Affairs as well as the appointment of Rodríguez Veve to chair it.

I hope that the issues addressed by this Commission have to do with the conditions that lead to inequality faced by people, including the invisibility of social problems that result in discrimination, violence and abuse against women and LGBTTQI + ¨, he said in written statements.

¨The President of the Senate, José Luis Dalmau, has excluded the voices of various sectors in appointing Senator Rodríguez Veve to this post. It is to relive the attacks on our sexual and reproductive rights since the Legislature during the past four years: José Luis Dalmau has replaced the role of Nayda Venegas Brown with Senator Rodríguez VEVE, said López Serrano alluding to the struggles they fought since of the PR Free Abortion Table to Stop the PS950

The New Day he asked Dalmau Santiago for a reaction to these expressions. Similarly, this medium requested an interview with Senator Rodríguez Veve to explain her work agenda.

In detailing his vote in favor of Dalmau Santiago as President of the Senate, Rodríguez Veve noted that he was doing so because there was a commitment to “Give way” to measures to regulate abortion “and protect the lives of both unborn children and pregnant mothers.”

The New Day has tried, unsuccessfully, to interview Rodriguez Veve about what he refers to in regulating abortion. Yes, the president of the House of Representatives, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, came out in public when the legislator anticipated that he saw it as “difficult” to approve a project to regulate abortion. He argued in a radio interview that the issue had been “overcome” in the past four years, but pledged to give it a tailor-made course, understand a public hearing process.

Rodriguez Veve responded by social media indicating that he found the position of Hernandez Montañez unfortunate.

“If it favors abortion, without any regulation, the important thing is for the country to know its position,” he said. “In the same way, that the country will know who the legislators are who are in favor of life at all times and circumstances.”

At the end of November, Rodríguez Veve and the representative for Project Dignity, Lisie Janet Burgos, sent a letter to the then elected governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia in which they indicated that an emergency that he had announced should be generalized because the its duty is to protect the lives of all Puerto Ricans. They noted that the initiative only seeks to drive ideological agendas of certain groups and that it is intended to use public funds to promote education with a gender perspective.

They also pointed out that violence “has no sex or age and that its causes are diverse.”

They also argued to Pierluisi that gender ideology consists in “the idea that human beings are not born neither men nor women and that our sexual identity depends solely on our self-perception, that is, on the purely subjective self-definition of as if this, that is, as if inculcating this unscientific conception of human sexuality, must solve or cut the problem of violence against women. “