Paper short abstract:

This paper focuses on the multi-stakeholder activist front leading the legalisation of abortion in Argentina between 2005 and 2020, in the form of a Campaign for Access to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion. Discourse and policy change implications will be the focus of the present analysis.

Paper long abstract:

After the passing of a bill that finally legalised voluntary abortion access in Argentina in late December of 2020, this paper seeks to address the main takeaways from the efforts made by the Campaign for Access to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion since its inception in 2005 until the law received a favourable vote in Congress to answer the following questions: i) what factors account for differentiated impacts in agenda-setting for the legislative treatment - or lack thereof - of several iterations of an abortion bill?; ii) what impact did the Campaign have in providing a discourse change that was paramount in treating abortion access as an issue of public health?; and iii) what can we learn from the Campaign from a feminist and activist perspective in regards to the future of abortion access and feminist struggles in Argentina, the Latin American region and the Global South as a whole?