Luciana Demichelis

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Legal, safe and free abortion: reproductive rights in Argentina.

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Location: La Plata, Buenos Aires

Nationality: Argentina

Biography: Luciana Demichelis (Ensenada, 1992) Argentinian photographer, journalist and editor. Non-binary identity. They work investigates long-term thematic themes related to the party as a political space, the body, the young Latin American imaginary and... MORE

A young girl celebrates the ni...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A young girl celebrates the night that Argentina has for the first time a majority to approve the legislation on legal abortion. 
For the first time, women of reproductive age will have the right to decide safely about their own bodies.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The walls of the streets of Co...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The walls of the streets of Congress were lined with green badges in favor of legal, safe and free abortion. Those who attended were mostly women, trans men and non-binaries young people of reproductive age, as well as historical activists from the Campaign for Abortion Rights.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

On this night, many young non-...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

On this night, many young non-binaries and lesbians participate. In the photo, they hold an image of Johana Ramallo, a missing girl found dead from the city of La Plata. Johana became a symbol of the struggle of the feminist community of that city, since many girls of the same age walked in the streets where she was disappeared.


November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

In the streets around the Cong...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

In the streets around the Congress there is a small celebration. At 2 in the morning rumors are heard that the approval of the law is possible. For many of the women who are there, it is our first opportunity to meet since the strict quarantine in Argentina. With the arrival of the heat, the restrictions were lowered. Many feminists are dedicated to celebrating that perhaps sanction is possible.


November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A young friend wears her Eva P...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A young friend wears her Eva Perón mask. In the drawing that she wears, Evita also has a handkerchief from the Campaign for the right to legal, safe and free abortion. For many young Peronist women, Evita represents a symbol of freedom and the right to freely speak out.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Green is the color chosen by t...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Green is the color chosen by the Campaign for the Right to Safe and Free Legal Abortion to represent itself. In the streets, feminists got party curtains of this same color. The Green Tide (as the campaign movement calls itself) floats in the wind in this symbol around the streets where the Senatorial voting takes place.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

In this photo, a young woman i...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

In this photo, a young woman is holding her baby in her arms. Many women come with their children to the march, expressing their right that others can decide about their own pregnancies. These women are opposed to the most conservative groups in the Argentine Society, which demand that abortion continues to be clandestine. The argument of these women is to be able to leave their daughters the opportunity to decide freely for their own bodies.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2 young non-binaries hug each ...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2 young non-binaries hug each other while waiting for the vote. The bodies with the capacity to gestate are presented on the march in all their variants: cis women, trans boys, lesbians and more. The right to abort will be free and free in Argentina at the end of the night for the first time in history.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A young woman cannot hold back...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A young woman cannot hold back tears as she awaits the vote, which is whispered in the streets that it will be approved.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A girl from a soccer team hold...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A girl from a soccer team holds her fingers in a V (a symbol of Peronist companionship) while wearing a Diego Armando Maradona T-shirt and a green scarf. In Argentina, women's soccer is gaining strength in relation to previous generations, thanks to the struggles of feminist movements throughout Latin America. Diego died a few months ago from this photograph, and his image is seen in different parts of the march as a symbol of Argentine resistance and popular pride.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Many older women wear a mask w...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Many older women wear a mask with the insignia of this right on their faces, to give strength to the Argentine youth in their popular struggle for the conquest of this right. The fight for the right to Safe and Free Legal Abortion in Argentina has been going on for almost 40 years. That night of December 30 will finally be made a reality.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A group of girls look at the s...gress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

A group of girls look at the screens waiting for the voting results. It is a historic day and there are many mixed feelings, accumulated frustrations from a year of disagreements and virtuality. Mobilize or not. Only by being there physically is the strength of this historical struggle expressed? Exit or save? How to take care of yourself? Many are mobilized, in Congress and in different parts of the country. Others stay at home, mobilizing the networks, pushing for him to go out with the same nerves as in the street. More than a million and a half people are following the session on YouTube. But there is one fact that reassures the conscience: this fight has already conquered the streets, what is at stake today is in the hands of the senators.

November 30, 2020, National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Legal, safe and free abortion: reproductive rights in Argentina.

Copyright Luciana Demichelis 2024

Updated May 2021

Argentina has become on December 30, 2020, the largest country in Latin America to end clandestine abortion. The Senate has given final approval for abortion to be a right, with 38 votes in favor, 29 votes against and 1 abstention. This is a victory for the women's movement, which for more than thirty years has been fighting for the conquest of their rights.