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After many years of campaigning, Argentina's feminist movements booked a historic victory at the end of 2020 when abortion was finally legalized.

Abortion Becomes Legal In Argentina As Chile Starts A Debate By Sonia AVALOS 01/14/21 AT 6:39 PM Argentina on Thursday became one of just a handful of Latin American countries to allow elective abortion, as neighboring Chile initiated its own debate on decriminalizing a procedure denied to most women on the continent. President Alberto Fernandez signed a law that allows abortion until 14 weeks of pregnancy that was passed by the Senate on December 30. "Today we have a better, more equal society," said Fernandez, speaking from an event at a museum in the capital Buenos Aires. Argentina's...

ACCESS to abortion was signed into law in Argentina on Thursday night following decades of campaigning by women who led a struggle on the streets for the right to choose. President Alberto Fernandez signed the law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy that brought an end to the criminalisation of abortion in the South American nation. “We are expanding the women’s right to choose. Women went out to the street claiming for rights that many people did not even realise they lacked,” he said during a ceremony to mark the historic occasion. “Today we have a better, more equal society,”...

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 disbel...

Argentina's Senate voted early on Wednesday to legalize elective abortion in the heavily Catholic country. The Senate passed the bill 38-29 after a debate that went past midnight, according to an NPR report. The voting garnered one abstention just over two weeks after the Chamber of Deputies, which is Argentina's Congress, approved the measure. The move comes after years of organizing within the Argentine abortion-rights movement. Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, minister of women, genders and diversity, wrote on Wednesday after the Senate vote that the movement is finally a law. "Today we took a hu...