The Senate of Argentina has voted down a bill that would have radically liberalised the country’s abortion laws.
Senators voted by 38-31 against the plan to legalise abortion for any reason up to 14 weeks’ gestation, and up to birth in cases of rape, risk to the mother’s life and health, and severe disability.
The lower house of the Argentine Congress had passed the measure by a wafer-thin 129-125 margin in June.
The vote in the Senate means the bill is defeated for this legislative year, but parliamentarians could choose to start again in 2019.
