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How ‘conscientious objectors’ threaten women’s newly won abortion rights in Latin America

From Uruguay to Chile, medical staff are refusing to provide abortion services even after legalisation Español

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A protester at a march for legal abortion in Argentina, 2017 | NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved

Women’s rights to legal abortion have increased in Latin America – but so have campaigns and policies for medical staff to be able to ‘conscientiously object’ and refuse to participate in these procedures.