News of abortion

Against abortion, for LGBTQ rights: Vatican defends 'human dignity'

08-04-2024 16:14 Vatican publishes new text condemning "grave violations of human dignity," listing abortion, surrogacy and gender theory alongside discrimination against migrants and LGBTQ people.

8M Rally

'We will be a tsunami' – Green tide fills streets surrounding Congress on 8M

09-03-2024 19:48 Thousands of women of all ages demonstrated near Congress to make their slogans against sexist violence heard.

by Sabrina Chemen

Women's Rights

Organised backlash unravels progress in women's rights

08-03-2024 06:10 Conservative counter-campaigns are unravelling global advances in women's rights, the latest "backlash" in a series dating to the 1980s, activists and experts warned ahead of International Women's Day on Friday.

Milei School Inauguration

Milei tells schoolchildren that abortion is 'aggravated murder' due to 'familial bond'

06-03-2024 10:58 President Javier Milei uses speech to young children at his old school to criticise "green scarf murderers," declaring abortion is "aggravated murder" because of "familial bond" between mother and foetus.

#8M: WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Feminists ready to rally for rights in face of Milei pushback

06-03-2024 09:37 International Women’s Day takes place this week and feminists across Argentina are ready to take to the streets to highlight the food crisis, the right to abortion, the pay gap, gender violence and much more.

by Ashton Goren

Abortion rights

Abortion protection in French Constitution is 'message of hope' for other nations

05-03-2024 12:41 France's new "guaranteed freedom" to have an abortion may transcend borders and "give a boost to the recognition of this fundamental right" in the world, experts and activists argue.

Abortion rights

France enshrines abortion as constitutional right in world first

04-03-2024 16:39 Lawmakers in Versailles vote to anchor the right to abortion in the constitution, making France the first country in the world to enshrine explicit protection for terminating a pregnancy in basic law.

Abortion law

'Not on president's agenda' – Spokesperson denies Milei link to abortion bill

08-02-2024 15:26 Executive branch is suspicious of the proposal and denies the possibility of going for repeal in the immediate future.

Abortion rights

Lawmakers from Milei’s party send bill to Congress seeking to repeal abortion law

08-02-2024 09:47 Lawmakers from President Javier Milei’s party introduce bill to Congress that would repeal landmark abortion law passed in December 2020.

Abortion rights

Milei officials hint government will seek repeal of abortion law

25-01-2024 16:15 Government spokesperson latest to hint that repeal of abortion law is on President Javier Milei's agenda.

ABORTION LAW

La Libertad Avanza lawmaker-elect slams 'barbaric' abortion law

21-11-2023 17:50 Bertie Benegas Lynch, deputy-elect for La Libertad Avanza says he is in favour of repealing Argentina's law allowing abortion.

Abortion rights

Women across Argentina march in defence of abortion rights

29-09-2023 18:28 Thousands of women marched Thursday in defence of the recently acquired right to abortion, which they fear will be endangered if Javier Milei wins presidential elections next month.

Abortion rights

#28S rally: Thousands gather in capital to march in favour of legal abortion

29-09-2023 15:47 Downtown Buenos Aires was taken over by feminist groups on Thursday, as demonstrators rallied to retain abortion rights in the wake of a policy U-turn proposed by leading presidential candidate Javier Milei.

by Andrea Puerto

PONTIFF FILM

Porn, sex abuse, gender: Pope tackles thorny issues in youth Q&A

05-04-2023 10:11 New film released Wednesday shows Pope Francis gamely confronting intimate accounts of abortion, gender identity, and paedophilia in the Catholic Church.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Inter-American court to hear first abortion rights case

22-03-2023 11:26 Woman, identified as "Beatríz", squaring off against El Salvador for case on the legality of denying access to abortion services

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Mabel Bianco: ‘The mechanisms we have to support women are not working’

08-03-2023 07:00 Physician, campaigner and activist Dr. Mabel Bianco on gender equality in Argentina, abortion reform, barriers to reproductive freedom and tackling violence against women.

by Erica Davis

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Feminists in El Salvador condemn state for denying woman life-saving abortion

08-03-2023 05:46 Feminist groups on Monday called on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to condemn El Salvador for denying a now deceased woman the possibility of aborting a brainless fetus in 2013, due to the criminalisation of termination of pregnancy in the country.

News of abortion

Against abortion, for LGBTQ rights: Vatican defends 'human dignity'

'We will be a tsunami' – Green tide fills streets surrounding Congress on 8M

Organised backlash unravels progress in women's rights

Milei tells schoolchildren that abortion is 'aggravated murder' due to 'familial bond'

Feminists ready to rally for rights in face of Milei pushback

Abortion protection in French Constitution is 'message of hope' for other nations

France enshrines abortion as constitutional right in world first

'Not on president's agenda' – Spokesperson denies Milei link to abortion bill

Lawmakers from Milei’s party send bill to Congress seeking to repeal abortion law

Milei officials hint government will seek repeal of abortion law

La Libertad Avanza lawmaker-elect slams 'barbaric' abortion law

Women across Argentina march in defence of abortion rights

#28S rally: Thousands gather in capital to march in favour of legal abortion

Porn, sex abuse, gender: Pope tackles thorny issues in youth Q&A

Inter-American court to hear first abortion rights case

Mabel Bianco: ‘The mechanisms we have to support women are not working’

Feminists in El Salvador condemn state for denying woman life-saving abortion

Milei and his Doppelganger

‘Fat Dan’ and libertarian childishness

Green going out of fashion

G20 or 19+1?

A little piece of heaven

Un estudio registró un aumento de los casos de cáncer en personas de menos de 50 años

Robo exprés, el nuevo método de los piratas del asfalto que amenaza a Palermo y Recoleta

El reportaje más picante jamás hecho a Milei

El futuro de Fassi, en manos de una corte de Suiza

Disgusto y ruido en el oficialismo por el “desborde juvenil” de Las Fuerzas del Cielo