Sending solidarity to feminist friends and comrades in #Argentina, where the Senate on Tuesday will debate a bill to legalise abortion. google.com/amp/s/amp.theg… #AbortoLegalYa
Mariela Belski, Amnesty International’s executive director in Argentina, said she was confident the “voluntary interruption of pregnancy” bill would be approved, sending a loud message to a region with some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws. #AbortoLegalYa 
“I only hope the senate realises that there is no turning back now. The women’s movement will not allow them to decide any longer about our bodies, about our health, or continue to oblige us to resort to clandestine abortions,”
Claudia Piñeiro, a writer and pro-choice activist
Claudia Piñeiro, a writer and pro-choice activist
“We still have to endure their senseless arguments that we need to have children to populate the nation, as if we were nothing more than reproduction machines, nothing more than a uterus. This is going to change tomorrow. I have no doubt about it.” #AbortoLegalYa
#Argentina’s leftwing leader, Alberto Fernández, and his vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, have championed the legislation and reportedly been battling to convince senators to back the bill. Fernandez championed the bill; legal abortion was an electoral promise.
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