Tag: Argentina abortion

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine president preparing bill to legalize abortion

  

  Argentina edged closer to legalizing abortion on Wednesday, as President Alberto Fernandez said he was preparing to send a Bill to Congress. In a speech to the Institute of Political Studies in France, the President said the measure would pay a “debt to democracy”.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2018 - 12:30 UTC

  Pro-choice groups will try again in 2019 to legalize abortion in Argentina

  

  Supporters of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (IVE) bill have announced they will make yet another try in March 2019 to get the Argentine Congress to allow women to legally seek an abortion if they so desire, it was reported.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:33 UTC

  Abortion debate: the “blue camp” trusts it has 37 votes (out of 72) in the Senate

  

  An Argentine ruling coalition Senator predicted that the decriminalization abortion bill that will be debated on Wednesday in the upper House, will be rejected since the so called “negative position will triumph”. Ernesto Martinez, who represents the province of Cordoba and supports the bill, said that the “blue camp” had already got enough votes to win a majority.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:20 UTC

  Amnesty makes abortion decriminalization debate in Argentina a worldwide issue

  

  Amnesty International has taken out a provocative advert that will appear in 134 countries on the eve of the vote to decriminalize abortion in Argentina. An image of a coat-hanger, a stark symbol long-associated with unsafe and clandestine abortions, will highlight the deadly consequences of the current law, and remind Senators that they have the power to save many lives by voting to decriminalize abortion.

• Thursday, June 14th 2018 - 21:23 UTC

  Legal abortion bill in Argentina faces an even steeper up hill in the Senate

  

  The lower house of Argentina’s Congress on Thursday narrowly passed a Bill to legalise abortion through 14 weeks of pregnancy after a tight vote on a proposal that has divided the South American nation.