It's been a year since Argentina legalized elective abortions up to 14 weeks of gestation, and there are disparities in the procedure's availability
By DÉBORA REY and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA
Associated Press
27 December 2021
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Every week of late, more than 20 women with unwanted pregnancies come to Dr. Miranda Ruiz, one of the few physicians who perform free abortions in northern Argentina's Salta province — many under a year-old law that legalized elective abortion to the 14th week of gestation.
Yet activists say that abortion services in socially conservative parts of the country such as Salta remain restricted and under threat, leaving poor women the choice of a clandestine abortion or having an unwanted child.
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