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Country becomes only the third in South America to permit elective abortions
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Tom Phillips , Latin America correspondent, and Amy Booth and Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Wed 30 Dec 2020 05.35 EST
First published on Wed 30 Dec 2020 02.31 EST
Argentina has become the largest Latin American country to legalise abortion after its senate approved the historic law change by 38 votes in favour to 29 against, with one abstention.
Elated pro-choice campaigners who had been keeping vigil outside Buenos Aires’s neoclassical congressional palace erupted in celebration as the result was announced at just after 4am on Wednesday.
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30 December 2020
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) welcomes the news of a historic decision by the Senate of the Republic of Argentina approving a national law on legal, safe and free abortion. The law will allow all women and adolescents access to abortion care for up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.
IPPF celebrates the collective effort of thousands of activists, feminists, and grassroots organizations that continued to fight for access to safe and legal abortion care.
With the approval of this law, Argentina will become the fourth country in Latin America to legalize abortion care, joining Cuba, Guyana, and Uruguay.
FEMINIST and abortion rights activists erupted into celebration in Buenos Aires early today after the passage of a law legalising abortion in Argentina.
Thousands of campaigners took to the streets of the capital on Tuesday night and waited outside the Senate building until the result of a vote on the legislation was announced at 4am the following morning.
There were loud cheers and joyous tears at the news that the Bill, which legalises abortion at up to 14 weeks of pregnancy, had been passed with 38 votes in favour, 29 against and one abstention.
Women wore green scarves on their wrists as a symbol of the national movement called the Green Wave, which unites over 700 organisations in the common aims of legalising abortion and providing women with safe and accessible healthcare.
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