Argentinean Senate approves legalization of abortion

Buenos Aires, December 30 (RHC)-- The Senate of Argentina approved early Wednesday morning the bill of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE), so the new norm passes now to the national Executive power for its passage.

"With 38 affirmative votes, 29 negative votes and 1 abstention, the project of access to voluntary interruption of pregnancy and post-abortion care is approved," the upper house indicated on its Twitter account.

After the enactment, the regulation will proceed, "an instance in which some changes will be introduced that do not modify the spirit of the norm," explained the teleSUR journalist, Carolina Silvestri.  She emphasized that, with 68 senators present and four absent, the upper house "finally heard the historic demand of feminism" in the South American country.