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"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
Activists gather outside the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in Costa Rica's capital San Jose, where for the first time in its history, a case will be heard about the legality of denying a woman access to abortion services. A woman identified only as "Beatriz" is symbolically squaring off against the Central American country of El Salvador, which enforces an absolute ban on the procedure regardless of the fetus's health or any risk to the pregnant woman. 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
Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists, each on one side of Congress Square in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, chant and wave scarves -- blue for the "save both lives" movement and green for the abortion rights movement -- as the final debate on a bill legalising abortion takes place in the Senate. 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
Buenos Aires, Dec 10 (EFE).- Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets again on Thursday as Argentine lawmakers debated over a bill that would legalize abortion in most cases. Current Argentine law allows abortion only in cases of rape or danger to the life of the mother. (Camera: PABLO CARATOZZOLO). SHOT LIST: DEMONSTRATORS FOR AND AGAINST ABORTION GATHERED OUTSIDE THE CONGRESS BUILDING IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.