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The Socialists recall that in communities like Valencia, Madrid, Asturias and Andalusia, every woman has access to assisted reproductive techniques regardless of their sexual orientation or marital status, respecting the 2006 Act

Councilwoman Municipal Socialist Group, Susana Hernandez, announced Tuesday on the occasion of International Women's Day, the PSOE presented at the municipal Parliament next March 17 a motion regarding access to assisted reproduction techniques in Murcia and defending the right of women to be mothers Murcia.

"Currently in the region of Murcia, with a PP government, only married women with a man can access these techniques, being discriminated against single women or lesbians," said the Socialist councilor, who lamented that "for these women who fall outside the rules of the PP can access these fertility treatments must spend a lot of money and is not therefore available to everyone ".

The Socialist councilor asked the municipal plenary that the Council urge the government of the Region of Murcia to allow access for all women to assisted reproductive techniques Social Security, regardless of their sexual orientation or marital status, as stated Act of 2006. "it is archaic and is a step backwards in the way of equality and non-discrimination, that women who do not carry hand a man can not be mothers or not have the same rights to try to be the rest, "Hernandez stated.

"Why Women Murcia have fewer rights than those of Andalusia, Asturias, Valencia or Madrid? In those communities any woman can access these treatments regardless of whether your partner is male or female or directly without partners" added the mayor of the PSOE, who reminded the PP in the city of Murcia and the Autonomous Community in Madrid, "the Cifuentes president has decided to contradict his party and make assisted reproduction is accessible to women with regardless of their sexual orientation and whether they are married or single, in order to advance equality. "

"Equality is not a flag waving only on March 8, is an attitude to be taken from the institutions and make it extensible to society, to educate in equality and prevent this type of discrimination covered by amendments to laws that the PP Words according to a retrograde thinking. a family does not have to be only between a man and a woman, and women in Murcia do not have that still have to go through the filter of conservatism to be mothers "has affected.

"Since the PSOE will continue to defend the rights of women, although some and some in the City Council and the Autonomous Community may not like it," concluded the mayor.

Source: PSOE Murcia