How `conscientious objectors´ threaten women´s newly-won abortion rights in Latin America
(WorldNews Argentina)

From Uruguay to Chile, medical staff are refusing to provide abortion services even after their legalisation. A protester at a march for legal abortion in Argentina, 2017. Photo: 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. `We didn´t see it coming,` said feminist activist Lilián Abracinskas in Uruguay, a secular country where abortion , same-sex marriage and the marijuana market were each legalised in the last decade. Abracinskas told 50.50 that many people assumed conscientious...