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Protesters take part in the Women's March and Rally for Abortion Justice at the State Capitol in conservative Texas state' and in NY.
Mexico City, Oct 3 (EFE).- Thousands of people turned out on Sunday in Mexico City to march along the iconic Paseo de la Reforma avenue carrying blue pro-life signs to protest against abortion and express their displeasure over the Supreme Court of Justice's recent ruling that criminally penalizing abortion in Coahuila state is unconstitutional, a ruling that has set an historic precedent in this overwhelmingly Catholic nation."(We're here) to defend the rights of the baby, which is already alive from the first moment that the egg is fertilized. You have to save the baby and the mother because often (they abort) because they're forced to, because they're afraid, but there are options," Maria Guadalupe Cardenas, a woman attending the march, told EFE.The marchers participating in the "Supporting Women and Life" march, which was called by pro-life organizations and Mexican Catholic Church authorities, gathered in front of the National Auditorium and at 11:30 am they set out for the iconic Angel of Independence monument, where a large stage had been set up and where a manifesto was publicly read. (Camera: AMERICA NERI).SHOT LIST: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO PROTEST AGAINST ABORTION AND THE RECENT MEXICAN SUPREME COURT DECISION TO DECRIMINALIZE IT IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. SOUND BITES: MARIA GUADALUPE CARDENAS, A WOMAN ATTENDING THE MARCH (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: "(We're here) to defend the rights of the baby, which is already alive from the first moment that the egg is fertilized. You have to save the baby and the mother because often (they abort) because they're forced to, because they're afraid, but there are options."
Some 300 women demonstrated in New York for abortion rights on the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling, which guaranteed that right before the court reversed itself last June.
The Women's March returns to Washington, DC with hundreds protesting in favour of abortion rights in the US capital, two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision that enshrined a nationwide right to abortion. IMAGES
An anti-abortion rally in central Zagreb draws crowds of several thousands, according to an AFP journalist, as activists in the staunchly Catholic country warn of an erosion of women's reproductive rights. Waving banners with slogans such as "Unborn children -- the most endangered minority in Croatia" and "Unborn lives matter, too", thousands, including many parents with children, took part in the annual "March for Life".
Lima, Oct 15 (EFE).- The Peruvian capital bore witness Friday to a march by hundreds of indigenous women from a dozen Latin American countries to demand recognition of their contributions to society on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women."We are revolutionary women, we are women of the countryside, of struggle, and we need the great capitalists to understand that we, too, have rights that they have to respect," Angelica Ponce, director of the Confederation of Women of Intercultural Communities of Bolivia, told Efe.She made the trip to Lima for the Second Summit of Indigenous Women of Abya Yala (Latin America), which comes nearly five months after the first summit, held in Bolivia. (Camera: MIKHAIL HUACÁN).SHOT LIST: INDIEGENOUS WOMEN MARCH TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS IN LIMA, PERU.
The first Women's March of the Biden administration brought nationwide protests to demand continued access to abortion, under threat from conservative lawmakers and judges.
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