FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a placard depicting Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei, who opposes abortion, during a protest in support of safe and legal abortion access to mark International Safe Abortion Day, in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 28, 2023.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Latin American rights activists on Thursday warned of growing political threats to reproductive rights across the region, as the United States rolls back access to abortion.
"What we are seeing is a lot of backlash of progress after many years of human rights struggles," Paula Avila-Guillen, executive director of the Women's Equality Center told a conference. "What happens in one country has repercussions."
