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Farmers protest against new legislation in Delhi, December 2020. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images

In Argentina, huge crowds take to the streets to celebrate the legalisation of abortion. In India, hundreds of thousands of farmers protest against new legislation, while millions take action in support. 2020 might have been a terrible, virus-ravaged year, but it ended with glimmers of new possibilities.

Argentina has become only the third South American nation, after Uruguay and Guyana, to permit elective abortion, a victory founded on decades of activism by women. In 2005, a number of groups came together to create the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion. A decade later came mass mobilisation against violence against women, a campaign that expanded to demand abortion rights, too.…  Seguir leyendo »

In America, many state governments have tried to curb abortion by placing severe restrictions on providers and clinics, purportedly for women’s protection, despite opposition from the American Medical Association and other groups. If the limits are allowed to stand, self-induced abortions are expected to rise, leading to an escalation of health dangers to women, particularly those who can’t afford to travel for help.

In India, a curious inversion of this story is playing out: The government is trying to reduce the qualifications required of providers so that poor women will have easier access to abortions, while doctors are the ones opposing this relaxation of rules.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Caitlin Moran. This is an extract of Times2 (THE TIMES, 03/04/06):

Last week in India a doctor and his assistant were each jailed for two years for offering the sex-selection abortion of a female foetus. While I’m not a rabid fan of abortion — I personally think that, in relation to post-conception contraception, society needs to be working towards a solution where someone can press a magic button and fairies make it all better — there does seem to be a flaw in the logic of the Indian legislation.

Abortion in India is legal. If Indian, or indeed any, women are entitled to have an abortion because they don’t want to have a child at all, why shouldn’t they be allowed to have an abortion because they don’t want to have a specific kind of child?…  Seguir leyendo »