Key Benefits:
1
DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 148 /X
Proposes to hold a referendum on voluntary termination of pregnancy
held by choice of woman in the first ten weeks
In the electoral programme of the Socialist Party, the following can be read:
" PS has on the plummeting of the Voluntary Interruption of Gravity a position
very clear. It has been six years since the referendum was held on this matter.
During these six years, the Country has seen a succession of women's trials by the
crime of abortion that confronted our society with an outdated and unjust law. The
PS takes commitment to raise a new referendum on plummeting
Voluntary Interruption of Gravity, in the terms previously submitted to the vote
popular, and will strive strikingly for its approval by the Portuguese ".
This text transited without any amendment to the XVII Government Programme
Constitutional.
In this way, it must be complied with what is an electoral commitment, but
also an imperative of conscience for many Portuguese and Portuguese. The
Socialist party has shown in a repeated manner the firm will to fulfill that
electoral engagement with the greatest possible urgency taking into account the framework
constitutional and legal vigour.
The question that best materializes the electoral commitment suffated by most of the
Portuguese is the one who has been subjected to popular vote for more than 8 years, in referendum
held on June 28, 1998. The realization of a new referendum that puts to the
electioneering the question of the 1998 referendum is, in addition to the more, a clear expression of the
strength of PS convictions on this theme. On the other hand, that question seems to take
advantage from the technical point of view on other hypotheses that were later
object of parliamentary debate.
2
In these terms, the below-signed Deputies present the following project of
resolution:
The Assembly of the Republic resolves, in the terms and for the purposes of Articles 115 and
161 (j) of the Constitution, present to the S. you the President of the Republic a
proposal to hold a referendum in which the citizens electorate census on the
national territory are called upon to comment on the following question:
" Agrees to the plummeting of the voluntary termination of pregnancy, if
held, by option of the woman, in the first 10 weeks, in establishment
of legally authorized health? "
The Deputies of the Parliamentary Group of the Socialist Party