6. Argentina: A stunning victory for women

In 2005, a small group of women began a campaign to make abortion legal in Argentina. While rich women might be able to find safe means to terminate their pregnancies, the poor were forced to seek backstreet abortions at grave risk of imprisonment, injury and death. As much as those building the movement believed in their cause, even they were stunned, a mere 13 years later, to see a million people in the streets of Buenos Aires supporting their demands. At the end of 2020, a vote in Senate brought final victory. In this episode, one of the organisers at the heart of the campaign shares the strategies that won the day. And, in this episode’s Coda, the Brazilian samba that seemed to be a lovers’ tiff but was a veiled attack on military rule.

In this episode: 

• Feminist Victoria Tesoriero breaks down the brilliant, dogged campaign to legalise abortion in Argentina
• The Coda:  How a 1970 samba promised Brazilians a better future beyond dictatorship

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