Colombian Women Demonstrate in Defense of the Right to Abortion
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In Colombia, hundreds of women have taken to the streets in fear that the right to abortion, which has been decriminalized until the 24th week of pregnancy, could be rolled back in the new government era. Women marching in green scarves reacted to the anti-abortion stance of President Abelardo de la Espriella.
In Colombia abortion is decriminalized until 24 weeks of gestation since 2022, by a ruling of the Constitutional Court in this country of Catholic majority. With green cloths tied to the neck and arms, symbol of the struggle for abortion, women shouted slogans like "my uterus, my decision" on this day declared of Global Action for Access to Legal and Safe Abortion. "I feel a very big concern. (Abortion) is at stake right now with Abelardo," said…
Bogotá, 28 Sep (EFE).- Hundreds of women defended on Monday in Bogotá the maintenance of the right to abortion until week 24 in Colombia, in the face of the fear of a legal setback with the government of the ultra-rightist Abelardo de la Espriella.The sit-in, which was repeated in other cities of the country, took place in front of the National Museum of the Colombian capital, on the occasion of the Day of Global Action for Legal and Safe Aborti…
As the new extreme right-wing government called into question abortion, Colombian women protested this Monday, 28 September, to retain their constitutional right to end a pregnancy.
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