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Pro-choice activists gather outside Argentina's Congress building in the capital Buenos Aires as a polarized Senate begins a debate on legalizing abortion in a vote experts say could go either way. IMAGES
Thousands of pro-choice and anti-abortion activists gather outside parliament as the Argentine Senate prepares to vote on a landmark bill on whether to legalize abortion in a country where the Catholic Church has long held sway. IMAGES
Brandishing light blue scarves, anti-abortion supporters chant and attend an open-air mass outside Argentina's Senate in the capital Buenos Aires, as the final debate on a bill legalising abortion takes place inside the building. IMAGES
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
"Europe has seen frontal attacks on the right to abortion," says Daniele Gaudry, a gynaecologist and family planning activist, at a pro-abortion demonstration attended by several dozen activists on the Place de la Sorbonne in Paris, just as the Senate was preparing to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
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