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Colombia's top court decriminalized abortion, making it the third major Latin American country to allow access to the procedure.

Monday, February 21, 2022 5:16 PM EST

The ruling by Colombia's Constitutional Court follows years of organizing by women across Latin America for greater protections and more rights, including access to abortion, and significant shifts in the legal landscape of some of the region's most populous countries. Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in a similar decision in September and Argentina's Congress legalized the procedure in late 2020.

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