{
  "id": 79778,
  "title": "La Libertad Avanza, PRO team up in forum against abortion and sex education",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/la-libertad-avanza-pro-team-up-in-forum-against-abortion-and-sex",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-03T09:09:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Buenos Aires Times",
    "slug": "buenos-aires-times",
    "url": "https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/la-libertad-avanza-pro-team-up-in-forum-against-abortion-and-sex-education.phtml"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Leading figures from the right-wing La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and PRO parties convened in a conservative forum at the Buenos Aires City Legislature to discuss policies aimed at increasing the birth rate, challenge Integral Sex Education (ESI) classes, and potentially repeal the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Law. The symposium, titled \"Freedom for the Future: a political agenda for the birth rate and the protection of children,\" took place on July 23 and was organized by the Political Network for Values, alongside other organizations aligned with the \"cultural battle\" initiated by President Javier Milei's government.\n\nNotable attendees included Buenos Aires City Deputy Mayor Clara Muzzio, former Vice-President Gabriela Michetti, La Libertad Avanza Senator Carmen Álvarez Rivero, National deputies Santiago Santurio and Joaquín Ojeda, as well as officials from Jorge Macri's City administration and provincial legislators. Álvarez Rivero, a Senate ally of LLA leader Patricia Bullrich, stated that overturning the abortion law would require societal support and argued that such a change is not solely dependent on Congress.\n\nCity Deputy Mayor Clara Muzzio, a prominent speaker, questioned sex education in schools and linked the declining birth rate to cultural shifts in recent years, citing an unverified statistic of one in three children being aborted. She also criticized ESI, asserting that children were becoming sexualized from kindergarten. Muzzio claimed that porteño citizens preferred adopting dogs over having children, stating that dogs outnumber children under 10 in the capital.\n\nGabriel Mraida, the City Human Development Minister, emphasized the importance of strengthening family ties, highlighting the importance of his presence at the event, which some criticized as not representative of the city's residents. Gabriela Michetti, a former PRO vice-president, reaffirmed her commitment to preserving \"the survival of the human race\" and accused progressives and the \"woke\" lobby of \"normalizing the pathological.\"\n\nSantiago Santurio, speaking on behalf of LLA, criticized progressives and the \"woke\" lobby, accusing them of \"pathologizing\" and making the \"pathological normal.\" Former Cults & Worship secretary Nahuel Sotelo, now a legislator for La Libertad Avanza in Buenos Aires Province, criticized \"hormonization\" programs, stating that \"gender ideology is a business\" needing to attract new clients. National deputy Joaquín Ojeda and fellow lawmaker Andrea Freguia voiced similar concerns.\n\nThe forum was co-organized by libertarian think tank Fundación Faro, directed by Agustín Laje, and the Global Center for Human Rights. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno, who received the Political Network for Values' executive director Lola Velarde, has ties to conservative European and Latin American groups, including Spain's Vox and supporters of Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. Quirno later defended a foreign policy based on \"Western tradition\" and \"Judeo-Christian roots,\" asserting the existence of truths about the human person that cannot be altered by political power. Despite President Milei's assertion that abortion is \"homicide aggravated by association,\" the government has not formally initiated a legislative debate to repeal the 2020 law. The forum demonstrates the growing momentum against abortion and ESI among leading libertarian and PRO figures, even as political differences persist and an electoral agreement is negotiated.",
  "summary": "Libertarian lawmakers, City Deputy Mayor Clara Muzzio and veteran PRO politician Gabriela Michetti participate in symposium against abortion and sex education. Leer más",
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