![]() She joined All Things Considered to share perspectives from her own work, and to give insight on what the movement in the U.S. Maria Antonieta Alcalde is the director of IPAs in Central America and Mexico, an organization that promotes safe and legal abortion access around the world. gone, reproductive rights advocates in the States may be looking to their counterparts in Latin America for inspiration and strategy. Now, with federal abortion protections in the U.S. Other neighboring countries like Chile could be next. In the last two years, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia have decriminalized or fully legalized abortion. They represent the green wave, a mass movement to expand rights in the region that has already proven effective. Protests for reproductive rights in Latin America have been flooded with tens of thousands of bright green handkerchiefs in recent years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Demonstrators wave green headscarf outside the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires, in December 2020, where legislators started to debate a bill to legalize abortion. ![]()
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