Argentina promulgates law making abortions easier to get 3 minutes read
By Javier Castro Bugarin
Buenos Aires, Jan 14 (efe-epa).- After banning it for almost a century, Argentina on Thursday began a new chapter in its history by promulgating a law to allow women to legally interrupt pregnancy under a wide variety of circumstances, thus bringing to fruition a campaign that began years ago.
At a brief ceremony loaded with emotion, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez signed Law No. 27,610 to applause and cheers from feminists who came to the Casa Rosada to witness the historic event.
With the slogan “It’s law” showing behind him, Fernandez emphasized that today is “a day of happiness for everyone,” since the law allows the creation of a society that is “a little more egalitarian and a little fairer.”
Vigil at the National Congress of Argentina, December 29, 2020. Photo by the author, used with permission.
I’ve held feminist views since childhood, long before I was able to call them feminist. My greatest lessons in learning and awareness, however, arrived much more recently. The year 2018 was the point at which I could no longer be a mere political spectator and felt propelled to participate in collective activism, spurred by the first-ever debate by Argentina’s Senate on a bill in support of legal voluntary abortion.
Early on the morning of December 30, 2020, I woke up in near disbelief to historic news: The Senate approvedThe Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Law.
By Brian Williams January 18, 2021 Tens of thousands of supporters of women’s rights rally on the streets in Buenos Aires, Argentina, early in the morning Dec. 30 as senators debated, voted up bill legalizing abortion.
In an important victory for working people, the right of women to choose to have an abortion was won in Argentina Dec. 30, when the Senate passed a bill making abortion free and legal up to the 14th week of pregnancy. As senators debated the bill into the night, tens of thousands of supporters of women’s rights rallied outside the Congress in Buenos Aires.
The streets “were full of feminist organizations, political organizations, unions and lots of independent and very young activists,” Victoria Tesoriero, a spokesperson for the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion, told the
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