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Mexico City, Sep 28 (EFE).- Latin America commemorated International Safe Abortion Day on Tuesday amid battles taking place in courts, across governmental bodies and on the streets.In the region, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Guyana and four Mexican territories have decriminalized abortion.However, in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, abortion is illegal except in cases such as rape, fetal abnormalities incompatible with life or risk to the life of the mother. (Camera: MIGUEL ÁNGEL ANDRADE/INÉS AMARELO). SHOT LIST: WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN A DEMONSTRATION TO DEMAND LEGAL AND SAFE ABORTION, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
Mexico City, Oct 3 (EFE).- Thousands of people turned out on Sunday in Mexico City to march along the iconic Paseo de la Reforma avenue carrying blue pro-life signs to protest against abortion and express their displeasure over the Supreme Court of Justice's recent ruling that criminally penalizing abortion in Coahuila state is unconstitutional, a ruling that has set an historic precedent in this overwhelmingly Catholic nation."(We're here) to defend the rights of the baby, which is already alive from the first moment that the egg is fertilized. You have to save the baby and the mother because often (they abort) because they're forced to, because they're afraid, but there are options," Maria Guadalupe Cardenas, a woman attending the march, told EFE.The marchers participating in the "Supporting Women and Life" march, which was called by pro-life organizations and Mexican Catholic Church authorities, gathered in front of the National Auditorium and at 11:30 am they set out for the iconic Angel of Independence monument, where a large stage had been set up and where a manifesto was publicly read. (Camera: AMERICA NERI).SHOT LIST: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO PROTEST AGAINST ABORTION AND THE RECENT MEXICAN SUPREME COURT DECISION TO DECRIMINALIZE IT IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. SOUND BITES: MARIA GUADALUPE CARDENAS, A WOMAN ATTENDING THE MARCH (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: "(We're here) to defend the rights of the baby, which is already alive from the first moment that the egg is fertilized. You have to save the baby and the mother because often (they abort) because they're forced to, because they're afraid, but there are options."
Thousands of Mexican women chant and march through Mexico City to demand their rights on International Women's Day. IMAGES
Members of feminist organizations demonstrate in favour of the decriminalization of abortion on International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City. IMAGES
Pro-abortion rights activists demonstrate to demand the legalisation of abortion on the Global Day of Action for Safe and Legal Abortion in Mexico City. Eight of Mexico's 32 states have decriminalised abortion, but in September 2021 the Supreme Court declared several state laws banning abortion unconstitutional, effectively allowing it throughout the country. IMAGES
The Women's March returns to Washington, DC with hundreds protesting in favour of abortion rights in the US capital, two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision that enshrined a nationwide right to abortion. IMAGES
Thousands of protesters defending abortion rights reach the US Supreme Court in Washington DC,two days before it is due to reconvene on a Texas law banning almost all abortions. IMAGES
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