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Latin America and Caribbean

Bolivia’s ‘bad births’ sit on political sidelines

January 15, 2008
Jean Friedman Rudovsky, Women’s eNews

LA PAZ - Bolivia’s 255-delegate Constituent Assembly under President Evo Morales -- the country’s first indigenous leader and widely considered one of the region’s most leftist heads of state--last month narrowly avoided adding a ban on all abortion to its new constitution, regardless of the dangers to a woman’s life.

Surprise? Not in Latin America.

While abortion rights may be a rough dividing line between left and right in the United States, progressive party rule here is no ticket to pro-choice advancement in this region.

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