Latin America has some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the world. Not only does the anti-abortion Catholic Church continue to exert a profound influence on public life, most major political parties also maintain a hard line on the issue. And so for more than 97% of the 345 million women living in the region, abortion is almost always illegal, as well as unsafe. A bill in Argentina was looking to change that. Argentine senators voted against legalizing abortion in all c