{"id":1903,"date":"2018-08-09T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:55:18","slug":"senate-rejects-abortion-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Senate Rejects Abortion Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/author\/ahmed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agency Reporter<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Argentina\u2019s senate has rejected a bill which would have legalised abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>After a marathon debate, 38 senators voted against it and 31 in favour, the BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p>Its defeat means lawmakers must wait until next year to resubmit legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Currently abortion is allowed in Argentina only in cases of rape, or if the mother\u2019s health is in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators on both sides of the debate rallied outside parliament as voting took place.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-abortion activists have been jubilant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this vote showed is that Argentina is still a country that represents family values,\u201d one told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-choice campaigners said they are not giving up. Some started fires and lobbed missiles at police after the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-choice campaigners have for years tried to get bills passed in Argentina, where the population is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>Their efforts gained new impetus when President Mauricio Macri \u2013 who opposes abortion \u2013 called on Congress to consider a vote on it, and it narrowly passed in the lower house.<\/p>\n<p>For the bill\u2019s advocates, legalising abortion is a matter of public health, with 43 women thought to have died last year after receiving abortions.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0Agency Reporter\u00a0 Argentina\u2019s senate has rejected a bill which would have legalised abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. After a marathon debate, 38 senators voted against it and 31 in favour, the BBC reports. Its defeat means lawmakers must wait until next year to resubmit legislation. Currently abortion is allowed in Argentina only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1431,884,300],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abortion","tag-argentina","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}