LISBON - The last parliamentary session in Portugal saw the unanimous approval of the Law on strengthening the protection of pregnancy and childbirth for women and families to involve a protection regime in preconception, medically assisted procreation, pregnancy, childbirth, birth and postpartum. This was an initiative of Hon. Catarina Marcelino, MP, Member of GPPsPD and recent participant of the MP delegation to Women Deliver 2019 and IPCI 2018 (pictured).
On the same day, a group of 86 members of the PSD, CDS and one from PS filed an application to the Constitutional Court “asking for successive scrutiny of the norms that frame education for gender identity and expression in public and private education”, calling it “gender ideology”.
During the week, various political personalities, activists and social scientists spoke out on the subject, rejecting what was at stake, remarking at the similarities with other such debates in other countries.
Hon. Catarina Marcelino noted that this is not the first time that on the last day of the Plenary and when candidate lists are being prepared for the upcoming elections, right-wing conservative party parliamentarians have launched an initiative against the SRHR. “This is not an isolated attitude. We are seeing it in other countries too and it is very important to track.”