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Crowds gather in Washington DC at the start of a day of nationwide protests aimed at countering a conservative drive to restrict access to abortions in the United States. 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.
Poles take to the streets of Warsaw on International Women's Day to demand free access to contraceptives. Although pro-Western parties managed to oust the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government in October 2023 elections, women are voicing anger and frustration over delays in changing the laws on women's reproductive rights. The PiS's eight-year rule saw access to abortion, in-vitro fertilisation and emergency contraception tightened. 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
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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