Argentina's new government moves to guarantee access to abortion in rape cases

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2. To think his predecessor vetoed the very same guideline just 3 weeks ago.

Macri did it to placate his hard-right base, though he had already lost his re-election bid.

His Health Secretary resigned in protest, and the country was left without a Health Secretary for 3 weeks.

In the middle of a measles outbreak!

Macri had all the sense of a lemon (or more likely, he just couldn't care less).

As we speak, Fernández's people are preparing a bill to (finally) legalize abortion on demand. The country has 200-300,000 of them annually, so it's still being illegal is that much more absurd.

It'll be a very close vote in Congress though, so we'll see.

Argentine Health Minister Ginés González García holds up the legal abortion guideline signed yesterday.

He's preparing a bill to legalize abortion on demand - rather than on the narrow rape/health exceptions current law (dating from 1921) allows for.

But the bill's passage is far from certain.