The legalization of abortion has put a landmark in Argentina
Argentina has made history for becoming the largest Latin American country that has permitted permission for abortion after getting legal approval. The historic law has made a change by getting 38 votes in favor to 29 votes involving the non-participation. Women are feeling delighted after getting the announcement in the early hours of Wednesday morning. All pro-choice campaigners had been keeping praying outside Buenos Aires’s non-classical congressional palace by having a celebration. One of the journalists and campaigners said “the great effort for women's rights is always difficult,and this time we were contending with COVID-19, so I am happier with the results.”
This legalization of abortion bill has legalized that abortion can be taken place in the first 14 weeks of gestation was approved by Argentina’s lower house earlier this month after being put to congress by the country’s left-wing president. This is hypocritical as Argentina was the country that denies abortion just as it used to deny homosexuality. Getting publically higher votes for abortion on this week of eve has proven that abortion is a public health problem and not a police matter.
The president says that history has been repeated in the democracy in 1983 where more than 3000 women die due to having an unsafe,underground abortion in Argentina. So the landmark decisions mean Argentina will become the third South American country that has legalized elective abortion. Where Cuba legalized the practice in 1965 and Mexico City and the Mexican state of Oaxaca have permitted the procedure of termination legally.Colombia activists have filed a lawsuit for asking to remove abortion from the country’s criminal code where the campaigners keep hope that this might open anew door to expand women’s rights.
In the following year, Argentina feminists held a mass strike in reaction to the rape, murder, and impalement of a 16-year-old girl who was living in the coastal city of Mar del Plata. It was after the year 2015 march of pro-choice campaigners realized that the fight against femicide can also involve the fight for having a legal abortion.
