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In Argentina abortion is illegal in most cases. There are about 500,000 abortions per year, most of them clandestine. About 68,000 women enter the public hospitals each year with post-abortion complications, and annually around 100 of these women die.
The goal of the hotline, “Abortion: more information, less risks” is to democratize access to information on the correct way to have a safe abortion using misoprostol.
The use of medicines to carry out safe abortions exists for more than twenty years as an established practice and is recommended by the World Health Organization and other agencies for its efficacy and low risk of death and complications when used correctly. Abortion using the medicine misoprostol is recommended by the World Health Organization as safe until the 12th week of pregnancy. There is no need for hospitalization; it involves little risk, with minimum subsequent medical care, equal to that following a miscarriage.
Click here to read the information about how to do a safe abortion with pills.
Pegatina aborto seguro Argentina
Declaration "Abortion: More Information, Less Risk"
The following is the declaration sent out by Lesbians and Feminists for the Depenalization of Abortion, to support the launch of the hotline.
Below the declaration is a list of individuals and organizations, national and international, that signed the declaration and support the intiative.
Media Argentina
Abortion in Argentina
Argentina’s abortion regulation in the National Penal Code, maintains criminalization throughout the pregnancy but tolerates certain exceptions. Section 86 of the Penal Code, regulates the cases where punishment is withheld. Section 86.1 establishes a therapeutic exception "when the life or health of the woman is at risk". Section 86.2 authorizes abortion when the pregnancy is a product to rape, specifying that in case of “mentally retarded” women their legal representative must consent to the abortion.
Despite this restriction, 500.000 abortions are practiced per year, meaning 40% of all pregnancies end in abortion. Complications due to unsafe abortion are the principal cause of maternal mortality, leading to about 100 deaths per year. Each year about 68,000 women enter the public hospitals due to complications from unsafe abortions.
Abortion, More Information, Fewer Risks Blogspot!
For updates and contact information from the hotline in Argentina, you can now check out their blogspot, www.informacionaborto.blogspot.com
Diary Argentina
This is a day by day account of the launch of the hotline, "Abortion: More Information, Less Risks." Here you can see the events unfolding and get a feel for the progress of this initiative, as well as reflections on everything that happened. During these days, you can check in here to see what the latest events are, and after the campaign you can get a feel for what it was like to be here!
