“Hearing that line the day of those election results was incredibly surreal,” Moss says today. But it would be only the first of many such moments over the next four years. By the time the series premiered in April 2017, Trump’s triumph, and the backlash and turmoil it begat, served as an accidental marketing stunt. Overnight, the fictional handmaids’ voluminous crimson robe and white bonnet, already a symbol of the threat to women’s rights, became ubiquitous at protests in America and around the world.
Handmaids materialized that year not just at South by Southwest, where they were paid by the streaming giant to promote its new series, but weeks later in a gallery of the Texas Senate, as lawmakers voted new abortion restrictions into law. They appeared outside the New Hampshire statehouse to protest a legislator’s comments about rape on a Redpill forum. They stood on the steps of a Belfast courthouse, marched outside the Palace of the Argentine National Congress in Buen
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Pro-choice demonstrators wait for the result of the vote on December 30, 2020, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The proposal authorizes legal, voluntary, and free interruption of pregnancy until the 14th week while allowing doctor s conscientious objection. It is the ninth bill to legalize abortion treated by the Argentine Congress and the first one publicly supported by the president of the country. (Marcelo Endelli/Getty Images/TNS)
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As large crowds of polarized political activists stood outside the Palace of the Argentine National Congress, Argentina’s Senate approved a bill to legalize abortion on Dec. 30, 2020.
With a vote of 38-29 and support from Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, many were surprised to see the Senate approve such a bill in the Catholic-majority country. In 2018, the same issue was brought to light in attempts to change abortion laws but was struck down in the Senate under the conservative President Mauricio Ma
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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.
Argentina Becomes Largest Latin American Country To Legalize Abortion: "Today we are a better society that expands rights to women and guarantees public health."