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On Tuesday evening, Argentina was filled with green: green graffiti proclaiming “Children, Not Mothers,” green banners exclaiming “It Will Be Law,” and green bandanas reading “National Campaign for Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion.” Teenagers and grown women alike tied the green handkerchiefs of the campaign to legalize abortion around their necks to signal their devotion to the cause as they poured out into the streets of more than 120 cities. Together, they stood vigil for nearly 12 hours as the Argentine Senate debated a bill to legalize abortion.
Argentine feminists believe the time has finally come for abortion to be legalized.
A pro-abortion demonstration in Santa Fe, Argentina, on July 20, 2018. (Wikimedia Commons)
“Stop making women’s bodies the battleground of all the political and economic issues you cannot solve.”
With these words, Argentine legislator Gabriela Cerruti closed the final speech of a 24-hour session and called on legislators to vote for the legalization of abortion throughout Argentina. Immediately afterwards, in the early hours of Dec. 11, the Argentine Lower Chamber approved a bill which would make it legal to end pregnancies up to 14 weeks by a vote of 131-117.