Milei and the threat to legal abortion in Argentina
Mount Holyoke associate professor of politics Cora Fernandez Anderson was quoted by Vox Media about Argentinian president Javier Milei and his plans to overturn abortion rights in that country.
On November 19, 2023, Argentina elected as its new president. Milei, a right-wing libertarian, vowed to lift the nation out of triple-digit inflation and rising poverty by shutting the central bank and ditching the peso.
But Milei isn鈥檛 just interested in economic reforms. He has also shown interest in rolling back Argentina鈥檚 abortion rights. Specifically, Milei has expressed a desire to hold a referendum on the 2020 law, which allows abortions before 14 weeks.
Mount Holyoke College associate professor of politics Cora Fernandez Anderson co-wrote a blog post for the with Camilla Reutersw盲rd, assistant professor of political science at Uppsala University.
As quoted by Vox Media, they said, 鈥淢ilei is not the first populist leader-elect to seek abortion restrictions within a broader agenda of opposing sexual and reproductive rights.鈥
They continued, 鈥, mostly under thirty. Milei promised to eliminate the Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity and to ban sex education in schools. He even denies that a gender gap exists.鈥
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