Ride the Green Wave! Finally, a Comprehensive Strategy for Pr... by Steve Golia

So when you are able to provide a legal abortion in the public health system, you address the needs of the most vulnerable people. If their partners come with them, they even offer vasectomies for their partners. Most of the time, it's a long-term acting contraceptive like an implant. So most of the women that come to a clinic for an abortion, leave that clinic not only with the abortion, but also with contraceptives. They are also offered contraceptives for free. So they can have access to other services to escape from those situations. So if you come to Mexico to a public health clinic, women not only receive a very good quality of service to interrupt the pregnancy, but they also receive, for example, counseling in the case that they are facing a situation of a violence. Reproductive rights in America Canadian abortion providers don't know how many U.S.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. She joined All Things Considered to share perspectives from her own work, and to give insight on what the movement in the U.S. Maria Antonieta Alcalde is the director of IPAs in Central America and Mexico, an organization that promotes safe and legal abortion access around the world. gone, reproductive rights advocates in the States may be looking to their counterparts in Latin America for inspiration and strategy. Now, with federal abortion protections in the U.S. Other neighboring countries like Chile could be next. In the last two years, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia have decriminalized or fully legalized abortion. They represent the green wave, a mass movement to expand rights in the region that has already proven effective. Protests for reproductive rights in Latin America have been flooded with tens of thousands of bright green handkerchiefs in recent years. Demonstrators wave green headscarf outside the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires, in December 2020, where legislators started to debate a bill to legalize abortion.

Ride the Green Wave! Finally, a Comprehensive Strategy for Pr... by Steve Golia