Argentina Legalized Abortion after Years of Debate and Controversy
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–Researched and Written by Baylee Easterday—
On December 11, 2020, Argentina’s lower house of Congress, the Chamber of Deputies, approved the controversial Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy initiative (IVE), which legalizes abortion up to 14 weeks into a pregnancy. In this majority Catholic country, abortion was historically only authorized in the cases of rape or danger to the life of the mother. The Senate voted on December 30th, approving the measure.
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