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Argentina’s Senate has voted down an abortion bill 38-31 after a 16-hour debate. This keeps Argentina in the majority of heavily-Catholic Latin America. This ignores the 450,000 illegal abortions that happen in Argentina every year, including up to 94 deaths from botched abortions.
But as Verónica Giménez Béliveau writes, churchgoers in Argentina are becoming increasingly moderate and the Catholic church risks alienating these followers if they continue to espouse the extreme stance of its conservative leadership.
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An abortion rights advocate after Argentina’s Senate rejected a bill to legalize abortion, 38-31.
AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko
Verónica Giménez Béliveau, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Argentina's Senate voted down an abortion bill 38-31 after a 16-hour debate. The Catholic Church thanked senators for defending 'life,' but ever more Catholics here insist on women's right to choose.
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Environment + Energy
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Ed Atkins, University of Bristol
The Amazon's largest dam is nearly complete. But the social and environmental costs of huge hydropower projects are just not worth it.
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Health + Medicine
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Jacqueline Weyer, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
There have been ten Ebola outbreaks recorded from the DRC between 1976 and 2018 from different locations. This implies that the virus is widely spread.
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Alex Toft, Coventry University
Interviewees report being told their identity is just a 'phase'.
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Bobby Duffy, King's College London
We all think men are at it way more than they are. But estimates of how much nooky young women are getting are basically ludicrous.
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Politics + Society
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Houssem Ben Lazreg, University of Alberta
The ongoing diplomatic spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia will hurt Canada if the kingdom intensifies its aggressive retaliation measures.
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Simran Jeet Singh, New York University
American Sikhs have been the target of many racist attacks. An expert explains the Sikh faith and its history in the United States.
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Juan Miró, University of Texas at Austin; Edmund T Gordon, University of Texas at Austin
Since US universities once stood at the forefront of the eugenics movement and its racist ideas, they should right the wrongs of the past by pursuing diversity on campus, two scholars argue.
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