Argentina Just Legalized Abortion, But Other Latin American Countries Are Making Progress Too - Women’s Media Center

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“Argentina’s ability to pass this legislation isn’t impressive just in the context of a pandemic, but also in the context of abortion laws in the region.” via WMC's the_fbomb

. All efforts went to fighting the pandemic and non-COVID related bills had to be put on hold.

This eventual approval wouldn’t have been possible without the mobilization of millions of women identified by a common symbol: a green handkerchief. The handkerchief is a reference to the white handkerchiefs women used during the Argentinian military dictatorship to protest the disappearance of their loved ones and which, in 2015, were revived as a symbol of the “” campaign on social media to protest femicide.

Conservatives celebrated the virus slowing down Fernández’s bill. One politician even drew a connection between the two events,

 

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Please look into the Dominican Republic, where abortion is completely banned and where there is momentum to legalize in three instances/exceptions.

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