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Thousands of pro-choice and anti-abortion activists gather outside parliament as the Argentine Senate prepares to vote on a landmark bill on whether to legalize abortion in a country where the Catholic Church has long held sway. IMAGES
Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists, each on one side of Congress Square in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, chant and wave scarves -- blue for the "save both lives" movement and green for the abortion rights movement -- as the final debate on a bill legalising abortion takes place in the Senate. IMAGES
Brandishing light blue scarves, anti-abortion supporters chant and attend an open-air mass outside Argentina's Senate in the capital Buenos Aires, as the final debate on a bill legalising abortion takes place inside the building. IMAGES
Pro-choice campaigners rally with their emblematic green handkerchiefs outside Congress in Buenos Aires after Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said he would would put forward a new abortion bill. IMAGES
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES