Tag: Legal abortion bill

• Thursday, December 31st 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Bolsonaro criticizes Argentina for legalizing abortion and erects as a leader of the pro-life movement

  

  Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro criticized a decision by Argentina’s Senate on Wednesday that gave women the right to decide on abortion. In a post on Twitter, the evangelical head of government said he “deeply regrets the lives of Argentine children,” saying they are now ”exposed to being cut from their mothers’ wombs with the consent of the State.”

• Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentina approves bill to legalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy

  

  Argentina's Senate voted to legalize elective abortion early Wednesday, marking a historic political shift in the heavily Catholic country and larger region.

• Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Argentine bishops: With Covid-19 taking lives and 50% poverty, it's no time to address abortion

  

  The president of the Argentine bishops’ conference called on lawmakers to “reflect” as they prepare to debate a bill that would legalize abortion in the South American country.

• 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.

• Friday, August 3rd 2018 - 11:30 UTC

  Argentine Senate will vote on the abortion bill next Wednesday

  

  The Argentine Senate finally approved the text of a bill to legalize abortion that will be put to a vote on August 8 in the upper chamber. As approved by Congress' lower house Chamber of Deputies on June 14, the bill sent to the Senate decriminalizes abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy and provides for conscientious objection for practitioners, but not for hospitals.

• 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.