Green light to the Law of "only yes is yes"

The Congress of Deputies has given the green light to the Law of Guarantees of Sexual Freedom, better known as the Law of 'only if it is yes', with the votes against of PP and Vox and the abstention of CUP.

This rule abolishes the distinction between sexual abuse and assault and convert the express consent in the key to judge sexual crimes.

The law also addresses vicarious violence recognizing the right of mothers of minors murdered by their partners or ex-partners to receive aid and shields the financing of the measures contemplated in the State Pact against gender violence. In addition, it will consider sexual violence assault, el street harassment, la sexual exploitation, la corruption of minors, mutilation female genitalia or pornography without authorization.

It will be specifically introduced aggravating by chemical submission for those cases in which the aggressor had used methods to annul the will of the victim. The public education system will also include content on sex education and mandatory gender equality at all educational stages.

Finally, the new law provides for the creation of 24 hour crisis centers. There will be at least 50, one for each province, and they will have psychological, legal and social care for the victim.

The rule is definitively approved after 30 months of procedures and a month after passing through the Senate, where an amendment by Junts, supported by PP, ERC, Citizens, Más Madrid and the Canarian Coalition, delayed its implementation.

The text of the Catalan party was an addition to the preamble of the law to make it clear that "the most hidden sexual violence" is persecuted, such as forcing an abortion or sterilization since, in his opinion, it was not correct how the rule was drafted in his opinion. exit from Congress: “cases of abortion and forced sterilizations”.

The differentiation between abuse and aggression was the origin of this rule, after the sentence for the case of La Manada, which considered the gang rape of a young woman during the 2016 Sanfermines to be an abuse and which unleashed a wave of citizen demonstrations.