The moral degradation of our society has reached a new abyss in the Buenos Aires town of Villa Ballester. At the Santa María Clinic, what was presented as a health center turned out to be a death depot where the authorities, after tracking a 12-year-old girl who had been transported 1,100 kilometers from Santiago del Estero, were faced with a scene of indescribable brutality. The inspection of the waste tank revealed the presence of eight human fetuses distributed in consortium bags, three of which showed “clear signs of dismemberment”. This finding, together with handwritten documentation that suggests a “commonality of these practices”, has triggered investigations into human trafficking and child abduction in the Federal Court of Tres de Febrero
.However, the physical horror of waste bags is correlated with the ethical horror of those who, from the media, ideologically shielded these practices. The journalist Débora Plager, a leader in feminist militancy, has been exposed to a contradiction bordering on the perverse. Faced with the news of an abortion performed at 32 weeks—eight months of gestation—Plager burst onto the camera with statements that today backfire: “Look prosecutor, that's neither legal nor possible after 8 months of pregnancy
, it's murder.”The journalist, visibly upset by the forcefulness of the facts, did not hesitate to describe the act with a harshness that her own ideology usually avoids: “What abortion are you talking about? Excuse me, there's no room for... a full-term baby, right? It's not an abortion.”
Despite the fact that she herself proudly recognized her political role - “I was one of the journalists who went to speak to Congress to promote the termination of pregnancy law and for decades from my place in the media I have fought to make the termination of pregnancy legal in Argentina” -, the reality of the babies massacred in Villa Ballester forced her to admit that, at eight months, the medical term is a mask: “At 8 months it is a murder, there is no interruption of the pregnancy, but it is a understatement. We all disguise it... At 8 months it's a crime.”
