Tag: legalization of abortion

• Saturday, June 8th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Paraguay not welcoming UN suggestion to legalize abortion

  

  Paraguay's Minister of Childhood and Adolescence, Walter Gutiérrez, said Friday in Asunción that a suggestion from the United Nations to legalize abortion in the South American country collided with the Constitution and other national laws. “We would have to change the constitution,” he explained.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:52 UTC

  Argentine Lower House passes bill legalizing abortion; a harder battle forecasted in the Senate

  

  Argentina’s lower house of Congress approved a bill to legalize abortion in the early hours of Friday morning, a big step forward for the legislation that could set the tone for a wider shift in conservative Latin America.

• Wednesday, June 13th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  A divided Argentine congress and society vote to decriminalize abortion

  

  Argentina's Lower House will vote on Wednesday a bill to decriminalize elective abortion without judicial authorization in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. In Argentina abortion is only allowed when the mother's life is at risk or as a result of rape.

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Landslide victory to legalize abortion in Ireland, according to exit polls

  

  Ireland has voted by a landslide margin to change the constitution so that abortion can be legalized, according to an exit poll conducted for The Irish Times by Ipsos/MRBI.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:23 UTC

  Macri confirms gradualist approach to economic reforms in speech to Congress

  

  In his speech to Congress marking the opening of this year’s legislative session, Argentine president Mauricio Macri defended his business-friendly government’s so-called “gradualist” approach to economic reforms from critics who argue he should move faster to cut government spending and lower taxes in order to boost growth and attract investment.