Old taboos
After a tenacious struggle by hundreds of thousands of Argentines, the country achieved the approval of the Abortion Law, thus joining the 60 countries where it is allowed.
Spain added to the list of the 6 countries that have regulated Euthanasia as a right of persons, being in process of approving legislation more than 10 countries at the present time.
More than 30 countries have approved the free option for marriages between people of the same sex. Another 20 are in the process.
The most fundamentalist Catholic Church continues to tear at its sleeves in the face of what they call "the evils of the third millennium," while world citizenship gains in individual freedoms and rights that should never have been forbidden.
Most African countries are far from joining these trends of social progress, as are most Arab countries. However, we know only too well that they are practiced clandestinely, as in the past in countries that have regularized abortion, euthanasia and gay marriages.
Freedom is the most sublime of the rights that we have as human beings and depending on the postal code where you live this right is curtailed by unjust, patriarchal, fundamentalist and retrograde laws, mainly at the whim of men who want to rule our lives. The fortunate heteropatriarchal far from the painful care of people who have lost their health, women who do not want to finish the process of their pregnancy or people who suffer because they cannot live in freedom their love with another person of the same sex.
Modern societies are built on the advancement of fundamental rights. The Right to a Life of Dignity must be complemented by the Right to Die with Dignity. The Right to Motherhood must be a free choice for every woman, without any restrictions. And Love, love cannot be subject to legislation or doctrine, as it is stronger than all of them.
Most of the world's rulers still do not want to know that their fundamental role must be to make their fellow citizens happy and not to constrain their freedom to manage their becoming. Religious doctrines are more concerned with the continuing loss of the faithful than with being able to translate the goodness of eternal love.
It is up to us in the 21st century to continue the struggle to establish as many freedoms as we can throughout the world. Nothing has been achieved without citizen's struggle and we are obliged to do so in order to leave a future for the new generations where the word freedom appears full of content, so that they can feel with pride that their ancestors cared about leaving them a better world, to flourish in common, with conquests in subjects that should never have been a taboo.
I congratulate the Argentine sisters for their journey, for their mobilizations, for their struggle, for their victory. And to those in government I remind you that when a people move away from their governments, the governments begin to lack legitimacy.