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Added on the 07/07/2022 12:59:50 - Copyright : Euronews EN
On Friday the Ohio Statehouse passed legislation that would require remains from a surgical abortion be either buried or cremated. GOP Gov. Mike DeWine has previously supported controversial and restrictive abortion legislation. Business Insider reports that DeWine is expected to sign the bill. Other states have passed or at least considered similar bills. The Supreme Court upheld similar legislation in Indiana in 2019.
Hundreds of women stage a protest in Buenos Aires to demand legal abortion, waving the green scarves that have become the symbol of Argentina's abortion rights movement, on the International Safe Abortion Day. IMAGES
Protesters gather in Mexico City on International Safe Abortion Day, demanding that the practice be decriminalized in the Latin American country. IMAGES
Women in Buenos Aires march to the Argentine Congress to demand the legalization of abortion. IMAGES
Women prepare to march to the Argentine Congress to demand the legalization of abortion, almost two years after the conservative Senate rejected a bill to legalize the practice. IMAGES
Poles take to the streets of Warsaw on International Women's Day to demand free access to contraceptives. Although pro-Western parties managed to oust the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government in October 2023 elections, women are voicing anger and frustration over delays in changing the laws on women's reproductive rights. The PiS's eight-year rule saw access to abortion, in-vitro fertilisation and emergency contraception tightened. IMAGES