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Ailsa Chang

What the U.S. can learn from abortion rights wins in Latin America

Demonstrators wave green headscarf outside the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires, in December 2020, where legislators started to debate a bill to legalize abortion. (Emiliano Lasalvia/AFP via Getty Images)

Protests for reproductive rights in Latin America have been flooded with tens of thousands of bright green handkerchiefs in recent years.

They represent the green wave, a mass movement to expand rights in the region that has already proven effective. In the last two years, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia have decriminalized or fully legalized abortion. Other neighboring countries like Chile could be next.

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