Paula Avila-Guillen of Women's Equality Center on the Latin American reproductive rights landscape

Transcript: Four years ago, Latin America had a landscape and a map that will look a lot like the United States right now. We had, one or two countries at that time that will accept abortion based on choice. And then the rest of the countries have all these exceptions. It depends on the country, it depends on the situation, like rape, health. So it was, like, very, very limited to access abortion and recognizing autonomy. But four years ago, the Green Wave, finally after pushing for a very long time, are able to legalize abortion in Argentina. And this is December 2020. And in the course of three years, we were able to completely change the landscape of reproductive rights in Latin America. December 2020, Argentina. September 2021, Mexico. February 2022, Colombia. Three of the major countries, the largest countries in Latin America, expand abortion and recognize abortion by choice and then at the same time, we were able to free the women who were imprisoned in El Salvador, even liberalize emergency contraception in Honduras. While all this movement and all of this is happening in Latin America, we are having the Dobbs decision. That has consequences all over Latin America.