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Protest in Quito demands abortion in rape cases be decriminalized

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Quito, Nov 10 (EFE).- (Camera: Juan Francisco Chávez) Representatives of several women's and human rights associations presented on Tuesday before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador a lawsuit regarding an article of the Penal Code to expand the decriminalization of abortion under the assumption of rape.FOOTAGE OF A PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN QUITO.

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