‘Ghosts from the past’: fears of abortion setback after Milei wins in Argentina

Newly elected president and far-right libertarian has vowed to repeal country's 2020 landmark legalisation of abortion

Three years after Argentina made history as the first large Latin American country to legalise abortion, women's rights campaigners are gearing up to again go to battle after the election of Javier Milei as president.

It's a very bleak picture," said Soledad Deza of the Fundacion Mujeres x Mujeres. This is a government that is promising us greater inequality and - from the first minute - that the autonomy, sovereignty and independence of our bodies is not going to be supported by the state."