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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."
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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.
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Mexico City, Jul 31 (EFE).- Scores of women took part Friday in a march to Mexico's Supreme Court to demand the nationwide decriminalization of abortion days after the tribunal overturned a lower-court ruling that feminists saw as a step toward eliminating criminal penalties for terminating a pregnancy.The marchers were vastly outnumbered by police, who prevented the protesters from reaching the Supreme Court building, located on Mexico City's giant central square, the Zocalo.(Camera: ULISES ANDRADE)FOOTAGE SHOWS THE WOMEN'S MARCH TO MEXICO'S SUPREME COURT IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
Women in Buenos Aires march to the Argentine Congress to demand the legalization of abortion. IMAGES