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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 10 August 2018

Argentina retains abortion restrictions as Brazil embraces debate

Religious conviction trumped women’s rights in Argentina’s senate on 8 August as a bill legalising abortion up to14 weeks after conception was rejected. Senators voted by 38-31 against the bill which had been approved by the federal lower chamber of congress in June. At the same time, Brazil’s supreme court (STF) held an unprecedented debate surrounding a legal case over abortion that could pave the way for a similar bill to appear before the country’s congress.

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