- Title: Women across Latin America march in favour of abortion rights
- Date: 29th September 2021
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER, PAOLA HUARCAYA, SAYING: "A protest outside the Palace of Justice to call for our rights to autonomy and personal development be followed through, rights to sexual production, to free and legal abortion." PERSON WITH MEGAPHONE PROTESTING AGAINST ABORTION NEAR PROTESTERS / POLICE STANDING IN LINE BETWEEN PROTESTERS PROTESTERS WAVING BANNERS PROTESTERS PLAYING DRUMS SAO PAULO, BRAZIL (SEPTEMBER 28, 2021) (REUTERS) BANNER READING: (Portuguese) "LEGAL AND SAFE ABORTION NOW" VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS GATHERED (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) PROTESTER, SIMONE NASCIMENTO, SAYING: "Today legal abortion is a right from the perspective of the sexual, reproductive rights of a woman. A number of nations in the world have shown the importance that this be advanced and guaranteed as a right. We are here on the other side in Latin America, in a country that is still without legal abortion." BANNER ON LEFT READING: (Portuguese) "LEGAL ABORTION NOW"
- Embargoed: 13th October 2021 01:42
- Keywords: Argentina Brazil Colombia Peru abortion legalised protest
- Location: BOGOTA, COLOMIBIA + BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA + LIMA, PERU + SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
- City: BOGOTA, COLOMIBIA + BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA + LIMA, PERU + SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
- Country: Colombia
- Topics: South America / Central America,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA005EWRUJBB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS NUDITY
Thousands of women demonstrated in several Latin American cities on Tuesday (September 28) to commemorate the global day of action for access to safe and legal abortion, in a region where the procedure is fully permitted only in a handful of countries.
In Colombia, where abortion is allowed only in cases of rape, risks to the life of the mother, or birth defects, some 800 women marched towards the centre of Bogota.
In Argentina, protesters turned up outside of Congress vowing the fight for abortion rights is not yet over. Late last year Argentina legalised abortion, a first for a big country in Latin America and a triumph for women's rights campaigners achieved over the visceral objection of the Catholic Church.
But the situation is different in nearby Peru, where abortion is illegal except in case of a threat to the life or health of the woman.
In 2015, the country's congress voted against a bill that would have allowed rape victims who have become pregnant to choose to abort.
In Latin America's biggest country Brazil, abortions are only allowed in specific circumstances, such as rape or health risk to the mother.
Every year, thousands of women in Latin America die from unsafe abortions at a time when teenage pregnancies and sexual violence continue to increase in the region.
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