Corina Cano on Law 18: ‘Bill of law responds to the woman who wants to register the name of the unborn child’

Deputy Corina Cano, who is the proponent of Bill 18, which refers to the registration of unborn conceived children, which was approved in the first debate on March 15, explained that this regulation gives a response to women or mother who wants to register the name or wants to have access to that empathic farewell of her baby.

She added that there is no protocol where “as a mother I can tell the hospital or the hospital asks me: ‘Do you want to remove the remains of your baby to be able to do the burial?’ that is not written in any law at the moment and it is exhaustively in the law”.

Cano mentioned that before the approval in the first debate, there was the presence of more than 23 organizations that gave their endorsement and signed in writing supporting said project. “More than a thousand people gave their signature indicating that they agreed,” he said.

He stated that, at the time they perform curettage on the mother, they tell her that they cannot take it (fetus) because it is hospital waste. “How do you say that to a mother? It is time that we see the pain of that mother.”

He stated that the fact that a woman wants to go to the Civil Registry to register that loss does not affect anyone around her, so it is a very personal and family issue. “It is time that we give that mother that right to register that loss,” concluded the deputy.