{"id":1402,"date":"2018-03-08T04:14:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T04:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2018-03-08T04:14:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T04:14:29","slug":"abortion-referendum-on-the-table-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/03\/08\/abortion-referendum-on-the-table-in-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Referendum on the table in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>SOURCE: BBC<\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\">Argentina abortion: Referendum &#8216;on the table&#8217;, government says<\/h1>\n<div class=\"with-extracted-share-icons\">\n<div class=\"story-body__mini-info-list-and-share\">\n<div class=\"story-body__mini-info-list-and-share-row\">\n<div class=\"mini-info-list-wrap\">\n<ul class=\"mini-info-list\">\n<li class=\"mini-info-list__item\">\n<div class=\"date date--v2\">6 March 2018<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"share-tools--event-tag\">\n<div id=\"comp-pattern-library-5\" class=\"distinct-component-group container-twite\">\n<ul class=\"sharetools sharetools--reveal\">\n<li class=\"twite__channel-out twite__channel-out--facebook twite__channel-click-extracted--facebook\"><a class=\"extracted__channel-link extracted__channel-link--facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-43308395#\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Share this with Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"twite__channel-out twite__channel-out--twitter twite__channel-click-extracted--twitter\"><a class=\"extracted__channel-link extracted__channel-link--twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-43308395#\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Share this with Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"twite__channel-out twite__channel-out--messengerdesktop twite__channel-click-extracted--messengerdesktop messenger-show\"><a class=\"extracted__channel-link extracted__channel-link--messengerdesktop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-43308395#\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Share this with Messenger<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"twite__channel-out twite__channel-out--email twite__channel-click-extracted--email\"><a class=\"extracted__channel-link extracted__channel-link--email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Shared%20from%20BBC%20News&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-latin-america-43308395\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Share this with Email<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"twite\"><a class=\"twite__share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-43308395#share-tools\"><span class=\"twite__share-text\">Share<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"topic-tags\">\n<div id=\"u07736874744296074\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body__inner\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/E3EE\/production\/_100305385_protest.jpg\" alt=\"women holding green handkerchiefs above their heads in unison\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">AFP\/ GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Green handkerchiefs have come to symbolise the aboriton rights movement in Argentina and supporters of legal reform have protested carrying them<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Argentina&#8217;s centre-right government has, for the first time, said it would consider holding a referendum on legalising abortion.<\/p>\n<p>It is &#8220;on the table&#8221;, Cabinet Chief Marcos Pe\u00f1a said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile a bill put forward on Tuesday would allow women to terminate pregnancies during the first 14 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>President Mauricio Macri said he was personally opposed to relaxing the country&#8217;s abortion laws, but he would give his Congress allies a free vote.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is a controversial issue in the predominantly Catholic nation.<\/p>\n<p>It is only allowed in cases of rape, when the mother&#8217;s life is deemed to be at risk, or when there is a severe malformation of the foetus. Women seeking abortions must apply to a judge for permission, which critics say can unnecessarily delay the procedure.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-18707514\">Argentina country profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-18707516\">Who is Mauricio Macri?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 70 Argentine members of Congress put forward a bill during a ceremony attended by dozens of activists.<\/p>\n<p>At the bill&#8217;s presentation in Buenos Aires, opposition MP Aracelia Ferreyra said reform of the Argentine abortion law was &#8220;a topic of equality and inequality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In several Latin American countries, abortion is illegal in any circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2017,\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-41005517\">Chile&#8217;s constitutional court approved a bill to ease the country&#8217;s total ban on abortions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-35435684\">Abortions are illegal in Brazil, except in health emergencies or cases of rape<\/a>or, since 2012, in cases of anencephaly, where the foetus&#8217;s brain fails to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay, which borders Argentina, permits abortions.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-35438404\">Abortion rules in countries affected by Zika<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several Roman Catholic countries, including Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Malta, The Vatican and Dominican Republic, have an abortion ban in all circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-42868035\">Ireland, a traditionally Roman Catholic country, will hold a referendum on whether to reform the country&#8217;s near-total ban on abortion<\/a>\u00a0in May 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOURCE: BBC Argentina abortion: Referendum &#8216;on the table&#8217;, government says 6 March 2018 Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with Messenger Share this with Email Share Image copyrightAFP\/ GETTY IMAGESImage captionGreen handkerchiefs have come to symbolise the aboriton rights movement in Argentina and supporters of legal reform have protested carrying them Argentina&#8217;s centre-right government has, for&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/03\/08\/abortion-referendum-on-the-table-in-argentina\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}