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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
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.
Santo Domingo, Oct 6 (EFE).- Some 150 women protested in front of the National Congress to demand that the new Penal Code, which is in the approval process, legalizes abortion in the Dominican Republic.
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
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."
Women in Buenos Aires march to the Argentine Congress to demand the legalization of abortion. IMAGES
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