The journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu criticizes the refusal of some doctors from the state hospitals to perform abortions on request, considering that this practice violates the fundamental rights of women and reduces their freedom to have their own body.
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Cristian Tudor Popescu condemns the decision of some doctors in the public system who refuses to perform abortions on request, stating that, through such a gesture, the woman reaches “in a situation inferior to a prisoner”.
In an intervention at Europa FM, the journalist explained that the refusal of doctors is equivalent to a violation of the fundamental right of each individual, whether it is women or men, to have their own body.
Specifically, he explains, the woman denies her “The property on her body. This is called in Latin Habeas Corpus. (…) Habeas Corpus means” I have my body “, it is my property.”
Thus, the newspaper made a parallel between the right of “Habeas Corpus” – designed to protect citizens from arbitrary detention – and the situation of women who are denied access to pregnancy.
“Detention is the passage of the human body in the property of someone else. Of the guards, the justice. There is a document called Habeas Corpus, through which it can be requested and obtained as a detainee, supposed to be illegally detained by those who make the request, to be seen by a judge. Arrested, considering that the rights were not respected, being arrested ”, he explained how this principle works.
The journalist believes that, when a doctor refuses to carry out a task interruption, he takes control of the woman’s body, violating her freedom and dignity.
“A woman who refuses to do abortion is in the situation of non-Habeas Corpus, in a situation inferior to a prisoner. Because she is prevented from having her body. Her body has the doctor who refuses her abortion, which is, in my opinion, a violation of the fundamental rights of the human person, whether it is a man,” said Cristian Tudor Popescu.
In Romania, access to abortion is limited by the availability of doctors
His statements come against the background of an investigation by Digi24, who show that many doctors from public hospitals in Romania refuse to perform abortions for religious, moral or personal reasons. The Ministry of Health acknowledged the existence of this problem, but without offering concrete solutions.
According to the investigation data, out of the 200 contacted public hospitals, only 87 responded to the request of the journalists and, of them, 49 have no doctor willing to carry out pregnancy on request.
In the absence of an alternative in the public system, many women are looking to support NGOs or gynecologists who accept to perform the procedure outside the state hospitals, even in sensitive cases, such as tasks resulting from rape.
Women’s rights organizations, such as the branch, warn that access to abortion remains, in practice, a limited privilege, not a guaranteed right. They ask the authorities to take urgent measures to make pregnancy interruption on demand it is real accessible for all women in Romania.
We remind you that the theme regarding the pregnancy interruptions in Romania has returned to the presentity and in the context of a recent legislative proposal, submitted to the Senate by two non -affiliated parliamentarians, former members of the nationalist formation, which proposed the prison sentence for the persons causing the fetal death after 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Deputy Monica Ionescu, one of the initiators of the project, subsequently stated that the law does not apply to women who choose to interrupt the task, but to partners who, by violence, can cause it to lose according to the mentioned deadline.
