RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Wearing orange clothing, the protesters rejected recent statements made by State Health Services Administration (ASSE) president Leonardo Cipriani.
The official stated that abortion procedures would be reviewed to prevent medical service teams from "automatically" authorizing them.
Feminists would deliver a letter to president Luis Lacalle Pou, demanding guarantees for the enforcement of abortion legislation and requesting Cipriani's removal.
Anthropologist, gender specialist and feminist activist Patricia Totorica, one of the protest's organizers, said: "We have been aware of certain issues that have changed, and that in our opinion are contrary to the adequate implementation and . . .
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