On the 30 of December 2020, the Argentinian National Congress voted to legalise abortion. This is a huge victory - one celebrated across the world. But will this green tide sweep the rest of Latin America?
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Coerced Sterilisation of First Nations Women
This October, two First Nations women filed a lawsuit against the Saskatoon Health Region in Canada for coerced sterilisation. This legal action, which claims the women were subject to systemic racism, follows a report released on the 22nd July 2017 by Dr. Yvonne Boyer and Dr. Judith Bartlett (both indigenous, of Metis descent) titled ‘Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women’.