translated from Spanish: The struggle for the creation of a register of women killed by clandestine abortions

as a result of the latest deaths due to clandestine abortions, which accounted for three in a month, over the rejection of the Senate to the legalization of abortion, a group project women, you will create a register of women killed by clandestine abortions.

The members of the Observatory of violence against women or a least of the movement women of the Matria Latin American, whose President is Raquel Vivanco will make it.

“Deaths due to clandestine abortions have as responsible to the 40 senators who abstained and voted against the legalization of abortion in the Argentina,” said Vivanco after the death of Liliana Herrera in Santiago del Estero, Liz in San Martin and another woman whose name is unknown who died in Pilar. 

“The deaths of these young women and humble them might be called State femicide, since all could have been avoided, confirm what months women’s organizations we have been denouncing, underground takes the lives of thousands of” women in our country,”said Vivanco. 

The purpose of this registry is “making visible and continue demanding the enactment of a law on legalization of voluntary interruption of pregnancy than in response to the hundreds of thousands of women who resort to this practice in our country every year,” explained. 

The Latin American Observatory of violence Senate Matria women movement

Abortion or one less

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