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Judi Lynn

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Sat May 7, 2022, 02:57 AM May 2022

Latin American feminists vow to protect abortion rights at home after shock US ruling

Women’s movements have fought hard to reverse anti-abortion laws in their countries and say it’s not the end for the US

Natalie Alcoba in Buenos Aires
Thu 5 May 2022 06.01 EDT

Reproductive rights activists across Latin America have vowed to protect hard-fought gains in their own territories as they brace for potential ripple effects if the US supreme court overturns Roe vs Wade – the 1973 ruling which guarantees the right to abortion.

Latin America has some of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in the world. But feminist movements have fought for decades to chip away at the prohibitions, and in recent years a younger, diverse generation of activists has mobilized in massive numbers to help clinch a string of victories in traditionally conservative countries.

Now, the possibility that the US could be moving in the opposite direction has prompted bewilderment, fear and indignation among campaigners from Mexico to Argentina.

“The segment of society that wants to return us to the dark ages is real,” said Ana Cristina González Vélez, a Colombian doctor and co-founder of Mesa por la Vida, an organization that was part of the successful campaign for decriminalization of abortion in Colombia. “This has to be a wake-up call, that a legal victory is not a cultural one.”

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/05/latin-america-abortion-rights-roe-v-wade

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Latin American feminists vow to protect abortion rights at home after shock US ruling (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2022 OP
As the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace, would you consider cross-posting this in niyad May 2022 #1
"We're number 1!" Look at us! Ain't we sumpthin'? OMG. Judi Lynn May 2022 #2

niyad

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1. As the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace, would you consider cross-posting this in
Sat May 7, 2022, 01:26 PM
May 2022

Women's Rights And Issues?

It is almost beyond imagining that, as other countries are actually moving forward, the US is now in a race to be the most theocratically/fascist backward nation in the world.

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
2. "We're number 1!" Look at us! Ain't we sumpthin'? OMG.
Sat May 7, 2022, 03:57 PM
May 2022

Just cross-posted in Women's Rights And Issues.

Chest-beating yahoos should be proud to know their efforts are getting this country considered to be completely backward by nature, even with all the expensive toys and luxuries some of the greedier citizens wave in the faces of the rest of the world.

All these empty, insatiable, shallow people have nearly destroyed the country. It seems impossible, considering how advanced the technology is, but that, in the end, is worthless if the culture is rotten to the core. Looks like another doomed "civilization" right before the lights went out.

What ARE the Republicans going to run on, now they've used THE BIG ONE against women? What will they build future campaigns on, anyway? They've just used their bomb!



Derrrrrrrppppp!

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