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Argentina: Can one country's change of abortion law alter a continent?

When Argentina's Congress voted to สิ่งที่สำคัญที่สุดในการเล่น SLOTXO legalise abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy, Renata
(not her real name) felt excited.

"How cool," the 20-year-old from northern Brazil remembers thinking in late December. A student and supermarket worker, Renata saw
it as the start of something new in a region where abortion is mostly illegal.

But she thought little more of it until a week later, when she found out she was pregnant herself. Then, she says, her world collapsed.

"Under no circumstances could I be pregnant," she told me, explaining that in the city where she lives, jobs are impossible to come by -
all the more so because of the pandemic. And she knew she would have been furloughed on lower pay if she told her employer.

"Everything has to be right to bring a child into this world," she explains, adding that after having seen her mother bring up two
children alone she never wanted to have to go through that herself.

But few options were open to her.

Abortion is banned in Brazil unless the pregnancy is a result of rape, the mother's life is in danger or if the fetus is anencephalic,
a rare condition that prevents part of the brain and skull from developing.

So Renata decided she would travel to Colombia where - although restrictions are similar to those in Brazil - interpretation of the law
is broader and so it is easier to access legal abortions.