Argentine government wins appeal against anti-abortion rights ruling [View all]

A federal court injunction which sought to suspend abortion rights in Argentina was overturned today following an appeal by the administration of President Alberto Fernández.

The injunction, issued on June 7th by Federal Judge Alfredo López of the city of Mar del Plata, would, if upheld, have suspended abortion rights legalized in January for all procedures up to the 14th week.

López's injunction was appealed by Mar del Plata attorney Mariana Brun, representing the federal government, and overturned by Federal Judge Santiago Martín.

Judge Martín scolded López for "suspending a whole body of regulations, made up of the law in its entirety, directly linked to health and gender policies of the National State - entailing (among other effects) the interruption of health care coverage that said law provides nationally."

The day after he issued his order, Judge López had tweeted an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus which he captioned: "At last HE will win!"

Last year, López issued a series of controversial tweets - including referring to supporters of abortion rights as "femibolsheviks," women's rights education as a product of the "abortion tyranny," LGBT citizens as "perverted degenerates," and accusing the president of engaging in "crimes of state" by sponsoring the abortion rights bill.

López also slammed a leading center-right figure - Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta - for his tweet saluting the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (May 17th), chiding him for being "subjected to the new world order."

"How long until the WHO considers heterosexuality a crime?" he asked.

Argentines have been sharply divided on abortion rights, with Fernández, his center-left Front for All coalition, smaller left-wing parties and some libertarians in support - and most of former President Mauricio Macri's Together for Change coalition and others in the Catholic right staunchly against.

Over 300,000 abortions are estimated to be performed annually in Argentina despite its being illegal in most cases until this year.

Some 38,000 Argentine women a year are hospitalized for abortion-related complications, of which 25 died in 2019.

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Argentine Federal Judge Alfredo López, whose June 7th injunction against abortion rights nationally was overturned today.

López's staunch opposition against abortion rights - as well as women's and LGBT rights - are widely shared among Argentina's conservatives.