pushed for it.” She said that as presidential candidate she discovered, much more so than as a senator, that women’s leadership is something that must be cultivated every day. In Uruguay it is rare for women to serve more than one term in politics; it is not unusual for men, meanwhile, to remain in parliament for 20 years.
Women experience politics as a sacrifice,
while … power is part of [men’s] personal
development. Being a politician isn’t
calculated into women’s happiness [but]
having power is calculated into men’s.
And that will take generations and
generations of women who believe they
can be happy in politics.
Senator Moreira underscored the need to bring forward the concept of political harassment in all of its forms, in order to remove one of the principal obstacles to making this happiness a reality for women.
She closed stating,
We will have to convince men and women
that gender inequality is just as structural
as socio-economic inequality. I will end by
saying that generally speaking, more
women in politics means more politics
for women. And that fight has just begun.
Report on the Annual Gathering of the Group of Women Parliamentarians
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Law No. 18987
Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy
Republic of Uruguay (excerpt)
SECTION 1: (General Principles).
The State guarantees the right to responsible and conscious procreation, acknowledging the social value of motherhood and the protection of human life, and it promotes full exercise of sexual and reproductive rights for the population at large, as provided for in Chapter 1 of Law No. 18426 [Protection of the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health] of 1 December 2008. Voluntary interruption of pregnancy as regulated herein does not constitute a tool for birth control.
SECTION 2: (De-criminalization).
The voluntary interruption of pregnancy shall not be penalized. Accordingly, sections 325 and 325 bis of the Uruguayan Criminal Code shall not apply should the woman comply with the requirements set forth in the following sections, and provided, further, that the interruption takes place during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Montevideo, 1 December 2008