(14 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 13 June 2024
1. Women on stilts holding a banner with their fists in the air
2. Wide of protest in square
3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Tatianny Araújo, 46, feminist activist:
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“22 weeks (for an abortion) is not the rule, is the exception. And when does it happen? It usually happens with young girls because you don’t discover the pregnancy in enough time in the first weeks, as they don’t even know what being pregnant is.”
4. Placard with a drawing resembling a character from the TV series The Handmaid's Tale
5. People holding placards reading (Portuguese) “A child is not a mother”, “A rapist is not a father”
6. Mid of protesters
7. Candles around funeral wreath on steps
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jandira Feghali, congresswoman:
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“We will not have this voted, it won’t advance, and if it advances we’ll go to the Supreme Court to bring it down in defence of women’s lives, women's rights and the Brazilian constitution.”
9. Protesters holding a banner reading (Portuguese) “A child is not a mother”
10. Pan down from women holding a flag reading (Portuguese) “For women’s lives” to paper sheets on a staircase with the name of congressmen and congresswomen that voted for the bill and a sheet reading (Portuguese) “Rape Caucus”
11. Wide of protesters gathered at Cinelândia square
STORYLINE:
Women’s rights' groups took to the streets across Brazil on Thursday to protest a bill that aims to charge any abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy with homicide.
The South American nation allows abortions in cases of rape, an evident risk to the mother’s life or if the fetus has no functioning brain.
Beyond these exceptions, Brazil’s Criminal Code imposes between one and three years of prison time for women who terminate a pregnancy.
If the bill proposed by the lower house becomes law, that sentence would rise to between six and 20 years of detention if an abortion is performed after 22 weeks of pregnancy, including in cases of rape.
The maximum sentence for rape without aggravating circumstances is 10 years.
The bill was proposed by Sóstenes Cavalcante from the Liberal Party, which is also former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro's political group.
On Wednesday, Brazil’s lower house approved the urgency regime for processing the project, potentially accelerating the timing of the vote which could occur in the coming days.
The project would then need the Senate's approval.
AP video shot by Lucas Dumphreys
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