Follow-up: Abortion bill fails in Uruguay

A proposal on reproductive health that would’ve decriminalized abortion in Uruguay was not passed by the country’s legislature. President Tabaré Vázquez warned that he would veto the bill though all fifteen members of the ruling coalition in the upper house voted for the proposal. Yet the bill failed after the final vote yesterday in the chamber was tied 15-15.

Political opponents of the bill want a referendum over whether or not to decriminalize abortion. Meanwhile, backers of The Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill will meet today over the possibility of reintroducing the measure without the clause on legalizing abortion.

Source (English)- The Latin Americanist

Sources (Spanish)- El Pais, Observa

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