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, by International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
The right to abortion is a major achievement of women and the fruit of a long fight for their rights. After a 9th presentation to the Parliament - the first presentation of the bill took place on May 28, 2007 - abortion is now legal in Argentina.
This is an achievement of the feminist (...)
, by GAGO Verónica
As Argentina’s upper house prepares for its historic vote on abortion rights, Verónica Gago, our leading theorist of the Feminist International, discusses how the struggle around abortion has opened up the central question of ’political decision’ for those typically excluded from politics.
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, by FIERRO Cele, VASCO Pablo
In the country of Pope Francis, under the neoliberal government of conservative Mauricio Macri, the feminist movement won a historic approval by the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Argentina’s congress) for the Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo (IVE), or Voluntary Termination of (...)
, by GOÑI Uki
Campaigners condemn authorities who ignored girl’s plea ‘to remove what the old man put inside me’
An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped was forced to give birth after Argentine authorities refused to allow her the abortion to which she was entitled.
The authorities ignored (...)
, by GOÑI Uki
More than 3,700 people submit apostasy requests in protest against anti-abortion campaign
Thousands of Argentinians – most of them women – have started formal proceedings to abandon the Catholic church, in protest of the church’s campaign against efforts to legalise abortion in the country.
In (...)
, by ARRUZZA Cinzia, BARON Camila, BHATTACHARYA Tithi, CAVALLERO Luci, GAGO Verónica, MITIDIERI Gabriela, VERELA Paula
A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America.
On August 8 the Argentine Senate, by a narrow margin, voted down the Law of Voluntary Pregnancy Interruption (IVE), which would have (...)
, by GOÑI Uki
Lawmakers vote against allowing elective abortion in first 14 weeks of pregnancy
Argentina’s senate has rejected a bill to legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Lawmakers debated for more than 15 hours and voted 38 against to 31 in favour, despite the fact opinion polls showed (...)
, by GOÑI Uki
Senate votes on bill opposed by Catholic church and pope that would legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy
Ana María Acevedo was a 19-year-old housemaid and already the mother of three children when she was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw.
Her prognosis took a turn for the worse (...)
, by Anticapitalistas, ARRUZZA Cinzia, Corriente Amaru, CSR (Mexico), DS (Argentina), Insurgência, ISO (USA), MES-PSOL 50, Movimiento Ecosocialista de Colombia, NPA, PRT, Sinistra Anticapitalista, Socialist Resistance (Britain), Solidarity (USA), TSR (Chile)
Update
After a long debate, the Argentine Senate refused to legalize abortion by a 38-31 vote early Thursday morning. As senators deliberated, hundreds of thousands of women — maybe as many as 1 million — flooded Buenos Aires despite bad weather to demand their right to legal, safe and free (...)
, by GAGO Verónica
Today in Argentina we see a battle for political spirituality in the streets, in houses, in beds, and in schools.
Feminism speaks of bodies at the same time that it raises a dispute about political spirituality. That is political precisely because it does not separate the body from the spirit, (...)
, by Ni Una Menos Collective (Argentina)
Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 4 to demand an end to violence against women, and for the Congress to vote in favor of legal, safe and free abortion when it debates the question starting on June 13.
The movement is called Ni Una Menos, (...)
March is always a month of upheaval in Argentinian politics, but this year it has been exceptionally heated. According to organisers, International Women’s Day saw as many as 700,000 women protest in the capital of Buenos Aires, with the question of free, safe and legal, abortion taking (...)
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