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“Pro-choice” champion president who brought abortion to Argentina, revealed to have forced wife to have abortion

It has been revealed that ‘pro-choice’ champion and former president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, who was responsible for the introduction of an extreme abortion law to the country, allegedly forced his wife Fabiola Yáñez, to have an abortion.

The claims came during an investigation earlier this month in which former journalist and actress Fabiola Yáñez accused the former president of psychological threats and physical aggression during their relationship between 2014 and 2024. 

During her testimony from the Argentinan consulate in Madrid, Yáñez, 43, accused the former President of ‘reproductive violence’ by forcing her to have an abortion when she became pregnant in 2016.

Yáñez said she felt ‘joy’ and ‘surprise’ on discovering her pregnancy until she told Fernández the news. 

However, she explained that Fernández urged her to have an abortion, which she considers to have been “the worst decision”.

According to Yáñez, Fernández told her “We have to sort it out, you have to have an abortion”. 

In her evidence, Yáñez said that Fernández “ignore[d]” her completely. She said “This time regarding our unborn child, he told me, ‘This can’t happen, I’m in shock'”.

Yáñez ultimately had the abortion.

Abortion became legal in Argentina in December 2020 following a campaign led by Fernández.

Pressure in the public eye

Fabiola Yáñez is not the first woman in the public eye to have shared stories about being under pressure to have abortions. Italian actress Ornella Muti revealed in an interview from 2022 that she was pressured by her agent to have an abortion when she became pregnant at 18. Female athletes, including former Olympians, have spoken up about being pressured into abortion, and the late Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor revealed in 2021 that she was encouraged to have an abortion by a record producer and doctor. She recalls a doctor saying “Your record company has spent £100,000 recording your album. You owe it to them not to have this baby”.

Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said “Fabiola Yáñez has shown great courage in speaking out about the pressure she was put under to have an abortion”.

“Fernández, however, behaved in an utterly self-serving manner and apparently pushed the mother of his child into making the choice he wanted. Not only did he allegedly pressure his partner into having an abortion, but he played a pivotal role in introducing abortion into Argentina”.

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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of people like you across the UK, the McArthur assisted suicide Bill in Scotland was defeated in March by 69 votes to 57.

Then, in April, the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill fell in the House of Lords.

Many commentators thought both Bills would become law.

If that had happened, governments in England, Scotland and Wales would now be preparing to roll out assisted suicide services.

Over the coming decades, this would have led to the deaths of many thousands of vulnerable people.

But that is not what happened.

Because supporters like you acted, those Bills were stopped.

Because of you, many vulnerable lives have been saved.

These were two very significant victories. But sadly, they are not the last battles we face this year.

The new Parliamentary session began on Wednesday. We now face three major threats.

  1. Attempts to bring back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill and bypass the House of Lords

    The assisted suicide lobby, led by Dignity in Dying, a multi-million-pound pressure group, has made it clear that it is going to attempt to bring back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill in the next parliamentary session.

    It then plans to use the Parliament Acts to bypass the House of Lords and force the Bill into law.

  2. Labour Government plans for a major expansion of abortion provision, including financial incentives for ‘lunch-hour’ abortions

    Under these plans, the Government would financially incentivise major abortion providers, BPAS and MSI Reproductive Choices, to provide ‘lunch-hour’ or ‘same-day’ abortions.

    ‘Lunch-hour’ abortion services are walk-in abortion services designed to fit into a woman’s lunch hour.

    Women facing an unplanned pregnancy need time, care and support, not a system that gives abortion clinics a financial incentive to rush them through consultations, scans and abortions on the same day.

    If these plans go ahead, many more lives are likely to be ended by abortion here in the UK.

  3. Extreme abortion up to birth proposals in Scotland

    In Scotland, plans are moving forward to introduce an extreme abortion up to birth law. This would go far beyond the abortion law change recently backed by the Lords for England and Wales.

    A review of abortion law in Scotland, commissioned by Humza Yousaf when he was Scottish First Minister, recommended that the Scottish Government scrap the current 24-week time limit – and abortion be available on social grounds, including for sex-selective purposes, right up to birth.

    The final plans are expected to be brought forward as a Government Bill in the new Scottish Parliament, which begins this Thursday.

If these three major threats succeed, thousands of vulnerable lives will be lost.

We cannot allow this to happen.

We can only defeat these three major threats with your help.

We ran our biggest campaigns ever to help defeat the assisted suicide Bills at Westminster and in Scotland.

That work has made a serious dent in our limited resources.

To cover this gap and ensure we can effectively defeat these three major threats in the coming months, we are aiming to raise at least £199,250 by midnight this Sunday (17 May 2026).

We are, therefore, appealing to you to please give as generously as you can.

Every donation, large or small, will make a crucial difference in saving the lives of the unborn and many others. Plus, if you are a UK taxpayer, £1 becomes £1.25 with Gift Aid at no extra cost to you.

By stopping these threats, YOU can save lives during this new Parliamentary session.

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