(23 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro – 23 June 2024
1. Various of protesters chanting
2. Various of protesters, some holding banners and posters
3. Protesters on stilts holding banner
4. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Demonstrators took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday to protest a bill that would further criminalize abortions.
Some women dressed in red cloaks and white bonnets, a costume from the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel, "The Handmaid’s Tale."
If passed, the bill would treat the termination of a pregnancy after 22 weeks as homicide.
Proposed by conservative lawmakers and heading for a vote in the lower house, the bill would also apply in cases of rape.
Brazil only permits abortion in cases of rape if there is an evident risk to the mother’s life or if the fetus has no functioning brain.
Brazil’s penal code imposes between one and three years jail time for women who end a pregnancy.
If the bill becomes law, the sentence would rise to between six and 20 years when an abortion is performed after 22 weeks.
Critics have highlighted that would mean convicted rapists could receive lesser sentences than their victims.
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