Política

Aborto legal a un paso de ser aprobado en Argentina

Diversas ONG calculan que cada año se realizan unos 500.000 abortos clandestinos en Argentina y que un centenar de mujeres mueren por esas prácticas

Activists in favour of the legalization of abortion disguised as characters from Canadian author Margaret Atwood's feminist dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale", display green headscarves as they perform at the "Parque de la Memoria" (Remembrance Park) in Buenos Aires, on August 5, 2018. 
Argentina's Senate on August 1 approved the text of a bill to legalize abortion that will be put to a vote on August 8. As approved by Congress' lower house on June 14, the bill sent to the Senate legalizes abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy and provides for conscientious objection for practitioners, but not for a hospitals.
 / AFP PHOTO / ALEJANDRO PAGNI
Activists in favour of the legalization of abortion disguised as characters from Canadian author Margaret Atwood's feminist dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale", display green headscarves as they perform at the "Parque de la Memoria" (Remembrance Park) in Buenos Aires, on August 5, 2018. Argentina's Senate on August 1 approved the text of a bill to legalize abortion that will be put to a vote on August 8. As approved by Congress' lower house on June 14, the bill sent to the Senate legalizes abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy and provides for conscientious objection for practitioners, but not for a hospitals. / AFP PHOTO / ALEJANDRO PAGNI ALEJANDRO PAGNI
Si se aprueba, Argentina se convertirá en el tercer país de América Latina que permite la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo, después de Cuba y Uruguay. Foto: AP (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Buenos Aires. El Senado de Argentina decidirá este miércoles sobre la legalización del aborto en una votación que se anticipa reñida, pero que favorece hasta ahora a los contrarios a la iniciativa.

Se trata de la primera vez que en Argentina, país del papa Francisco y de fuerte influencia católica, se discute un proyecto de ley que permitiría el aborto gratuito hasta la semana 14 de gestación.

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