It might be surprising to know, but actually “As of the 2015 elections, Argentina has a higher percentage of women in elected seats in both the National Lower House and the Senate than the world averages: 35.8 percent and 41.7 percent, respectively, in comparison with 22.9 percent and 22.3 percent” (McCay). Something that is often forgotten is the fact that even though inequality might be fought against and protested, without people in politics agreeing with the movement, things will never change. That is why when discussing women rights it is so important to help women understand and encourage them to become an active participant in politics. The fact that Argentina has allowed women to significantly engage in politics is a major factor as
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Actually, the Catholic Church came almost immediately after Christopher Columbus first discovered the Americas and have remained here ever since (Palmer). As of 2014 forty percent of the world’s total Catholic population lived in Latin America, this is about 425 million people (Pew Research Center). Although this number has decreased from the sixty percent that it was in the 1900s this is still a significant amount of the population within the region. When discussing abortion and gaining more abortion rights for women this relationship starts to become an …show more content…
There have also been instances where countries have moved backwards and lost abortion rights and gained abortion bans instead. In each case, there are factions of the population that wholly support the new changes, but more importantly, there are significant factors that keep these countries from being able to move forward more quickly. These factors are a lack of women’s rights, the history with the Catholic Church, and other salient issues, like the United States independent groups involvement, and countries’ democracies. Throughout most of this paper I have attempted to be and write as unbiasedly as possible, but honestly I am very pleased in the current direction that Latin America is heading in terms of gaining more abortion rights. Although the steps that countries have to take must be small, otherwise they would be unable to get over the roadblocks discussed in this paper, at least they are attempting to try and move forward. After all, the region faces very challenging barriers. One such challenge is the fact that, Latin America faces a major gender inequality issue and without having women rights and encouraging and involving women in politics it is hard if not impossible to gain more abortion rights for a country. Latin America is further held from gaining abortion
Actually, the Catholic Church came almost immediately after Christopher Columbus first discovered the Americas and have remained here ever since (Palmer). As of 2014 forty percent of the world’s total Catholic population lived in Latin America, this is about 425 million people (Pew Research Center). Although this number has decreased from the sixty percent that it was in the 1900s this is still a significant amount of the population within the region. When discussing abortion and gaining more abortion rights for women this relationship starts to become an …show more content…
There have also been instances where countries have moved backwards and lost abortion rights and gained abortion bans instead. In each case, there are factions of the population that wholly support the new changes, but more importantly, there are significant factors that keep these countries from being able to move forward more quickly. These factors are a lack of women’s rights, the history with the Catholic Church, and other salient issues, like the United States independent groups involvement, and countries’ democracies. Throughout most of this paper I have attempted to be and write as unbiasedly as possible, but honestly I am very pleased in the current direction that Latin America is heading in terms of gaining more abortion rights. Although the steps that countries have to take must be small, otherwise they would be unable to get over the roadblocks discussed in this paper, at least they are attempting to try and move forward. After all, the region faces very challenging barriers. One such challenge is the fact that, Latin America faces a major gender inequality issue and without having women rights and encouraging and involving women in politics it is hard if not impossible to gain more abortion rights for a country. Latin America is further held from gaining abortion