Marches across the country in defense of legal, safe and free abortion

Women, diversities, independent and organized activists will carry out this afternoon a mobilization focused on the city of Buenos Aires and replicas throughout the country for. Under the slogan “freedom is ours”, they demonstrate “for safe and free abortion, for the ESI and for dignified lives”, “against the right, adjustment and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)”. In Ciudad the march begins at 16.00 in Plaza de Mayo and then the central act is in Congress to ask “for safe and free abortion, for the ESI, for dignified lives” and fight “against the right, the adjustment and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)”. Likewise, concentrations are expected in Rosario, Córdoba, Tucumán, Entre Ríos, Jujuy, Misiones, Río Negro, Neuquén among other provinces. For the first case the call will be at 17 in the National Monument to the Flag. For Córdoba, the meeting will be held at the Museum of Archaeology where there will be a music festival. With respect to Tucumán, it will march from Plaza Urquiza to Plaza Independencia and in Paraná, Entre Ríos, there will be a march from Plaza 1° de Mayo to Plaza Alvear.Luci Cavallero, a member of the Ni Una Menos collective told Telam: “We have a point of agreement and that is that the possibility that the right or the extreme right govern this country would mean the loss of many rights and a worsening of the situation. the lives of many women, lesbians, transvestites and trans people in our country,” Luci Cavallero, a member of the Ni Una Menos collective, told Telam.From an assembly process convened after the results of the primary elections on August 13, feminisms agreed to take to the streets on September 28 (28S), Global Day of Action for Access to Legal Abortion, Safe and Free.” The demands have to do of course with the defense of very important rights for the feminist movement such as access to abortion, but also comprehensive sex education, public school, pensions and moratoriums, “said Cavallero.In addition, for “a pending agenda”, such as “the recognition of unpaid work and community work, the care law, for a larger budget to address violence and access to housing.” Those who convene emphasized the concept of freedom. “Freedom cannot be thought of as individual freedom because it is associated with rights that make it possible for us to exercise that freedom,” Cavallero said.During the last weeks, posters have been disseminated on social networks and in the streets with phrases such as “Freedom is that your old woman has been able to retire” or “Freedom is that 80% of the childhoods who suffered abuse were able to tell it thanks to the ESI.” The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion also called for “mobilizing throughout the country to defend the right to decide on bodies, embodied in Law 27,610 and conquered by the deed of the feminist movement and gender diversity that led to the green tide.”

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