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tenorly

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Mon Mar 6, 2017, 01:10 AM
Mar 2017

Progress as far as abortion rights (and so many other issues) has always had the same stumbling blocks in Latin America: the elites, who often have a very 'Trumpian' sense of entitlement (i.e. chastity for thee, not for me); and the Catholic Church - particularly its fascist wing, the Opus Dei (who were behind the region's dictatorships in the '70s and still wield a lot of power there).

Uruguay, and to a lesser extent Argentina, are probably the furthest ahead in terms of women's rights - but even there the hard-fought gains are always under threat.

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