By 2020, Argentina legalized abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The sight of throngs of people wearing green made a visual statement, but it also propelled progress in reproductive rights across South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Story continues What has the “green wave” accomplished in the past? (The Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto in Argentina did not respond to requests for an interview.) “They selected green as the color of health and hope,” says Mariana Ardila, a Colombia-based managing attorney at Women’s Link Worldwide. When the Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto (National Campaign For the Right To Abortion), which was first launched in 2005, started to organize, to push for the decriminalization of abortion in Argentina, they looked back at the “Madres de Plaza de Mayo” (“Mothers of Plaza de Mayo”), grandmothers and mothers who wore white scarves and protested the disappearance of almost 30,000 people under the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla in the ‘70s.
(Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images) What is the history of the green scarf at protests? Wade, the 1973 ruling guaranteeing abortion access. The nationwide demonstrations are a response to leaked draft opinion showing the US Supreme Court’s conservative majority is considering overturning Roe v. – Thousands of activists are participating in a national day of action calling for safe and legal access to abortion. Demonstrators march during the abortion rights rally in reaction to the leak of the US Supreme Court draft abortion ruling on in Brooklyn, New York.
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