At Last, Argentina Has Legalized Abortion Amanda Arnold
Following years of mobilization and demonstrations from the country’s robust feminist movement, abortion will soon be legal in Argentina. Earlier this month, the country’s lower house approved a groundbreaking bill which legalizes the procedure during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy and early Wednesday morning, the Senate did the same.
“It’s one of those things that you anticipate for so long that when it finally happens you can’t believe it and don’t know what to do with yourself,” supporter María Blanco told the New York
Times. “I couldn’t stop crying.”