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Hundreds of protesters march through Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires in favour of the decriminalization of abortion and access to sexual education, on the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean. IMAGES
Images of the US Supreme Court as justices decide to preserve access to the abortion pill, pending appeal. IMAGES
Images of people outside the US Supreme Court building as the nation's highest court is poised to wade into the legal battle over the abortion drug mifepristone with a ruling Friday on lower court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill. IMAGES
Rome (Italy), July 2, EFE, (Camera: Álvaro Padilla).- Dozens of women demonstrated on Thursday in Rome in front of the Ministry of Health, after having done so in other Italian cities, to demand that the right to a safe abortion be made effective, after the setbacks that have occurred in some regions governed by the ultra-right.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST AND SOUNDBITES FROM ELISABETTA CANITANO, A GYNAECOLOGISTTRANSLATION:"Italian law prohibits the use of pharmacological abortion up to 9 weeks of pregnancy, because the Catholic Church is inserted in hospitals, in the decision-making bodies.""Our health is in the hands of priests and businessmen. We want a public, secular health system that allows for reproductive rights, the free choice of women and that is on a par with the rest of Europe."
Vice President Kamala Harris says Trump "wants to take America back to 1800s" on abortion in a statement in Tucson, Arizona just days after that southwestern state's conservative supreme court rolled back reproductive rights to the Civil War era, saying an 1864 ban on abortion was valid. SOUNDBITE
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hails the EU parliament's adoption of a contentious asylum policy reform as a "huge achievement for Europe". The parliament's main political groups overcame opposition from far-right and far-left parties to pass the new migration and asylum pact -- a sweeping reform nearly a decade in the making. SOUNDBITE
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