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Lima, Sep 28 (EFE).- Members of social and feminist organizations gathered on Tuesday in front of the Peruvian Palace of Justice located in the historic center of Lima, to demand that "legal, safe and free abortion" should be legalized in their country.The participants demanded that all women, transmasculinities, people of non-binary gender, Amazonian, Andean, disabled, neurodivergent, are guaranteed access to legal, safe and free abortion without criminalization, stigmas and religious impositions. (Camera: JUAN PALOMINO)SHOT LIST: GROUPS OF WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN A SIT-IN PROTEST TO DEMAND LEGAL, SAFE AND FREE ABORTION, AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION, IN FRONT OF THE PALACE OF JUSTICE IN LIMA, PERU.SOUND BITES: CAROLINA, ONE OF THE PROTESTERS. TRANSLATION: It is necessary to urgently legalize abortion because it is a duty of democracy, it is a burden on women and people who are able to gestate.
Women in Buenos Aires march to the Argentine Congress to demand the legalization of abortion. IMAGES
Washington ,Oct 2 (EFE/EPA).- Women's rights organizations planned to hold 660 marches across the United States on Saturday in opposition to moves by Texas and other Republican-led states that could effectively put abortion out of reach for millions.What was expected to be the largest event took place in Washington, where thousands of women filled Freedom Square for a rally before making their way walking to the Supreme Court.Abortion has been legal throughout the US since 1973, the year the Supreme Court established a woman's right to choose with their ruling in Roe vs. Wade. (Camera: MICHAEL REYNOLDS).SHOT LIST: PRO-CHOICE PARTICIPANTS MARCH AGAINST THREATS TO LEGAL ABORTION IN WASHINGTON, DC, US.
San Salvador, Sep 28 (EFE).- Latin America commemorated International Safe Abortion Day on Tuesday amid battles taking place in courts, across governmental bodies and on the streets.In the region, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Guyana and four Mexican territories have decriminalized abortion.However, in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, abortion is illegal except in cases such as rape, fetal abnormalities incompatible with life or risk to the life of the mother.In Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras, the termination of pregnancy is totally illegal, and carries prison sentences for women who undergo the procedure and for those who carry it out. (Camera: VLADIMIR CHICAS). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE GATHER TO DEMAND DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION IN SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR.
Buenos Aires, Sep 28 (EFE).- Latin America commemorated International Safe Abortion Day on Tuesday amid battles taking place in courts, across governmental bodies and on the streets.In the region, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Guyana and four Mexican territories have decriminalized abortion. (Camera: AUGUSTO MOREL). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE MARCH IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, TO MARK THE INTERNATIONAL SAFE ABORTION DAY.