Rights activists protest in Rio as Congress debates abortion bill

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Hundreds of abortion rights activists protest on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro against a controversial bill under consideration in Congress that would equate abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy to homicide and impose up to 20 years in prison, including in cases of sexual abuse.

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00:00Para Jura, Para Jura, Para Jura

00:17Today we are here in Copacabana fighting against PL-1904

00:22which aims to criminalize abortion,

00:25where nowadays in Brazil it is legalized in three cases.

00:29In the case of rape, ancephaly and risk of pregnancy.

00:33So today the fight is for the archiving of this PL,

00:37because this PL is anti-democratic

00:39and it wants to end the rights of women and our children.

00:59The problem is that the Congress is full of men,

01:07full of conservatives and hypocrites,

01:09because at the same time they want to increase and compare

01:13abortion to the case of crime,

01:16the rapist does not have this same comparison.

01:19The rapist can get up to a maximum of 10 years,

01:21and if this PL passes, women will get up to 20 years,

01:24not women, children will get up to 20 years in jail.

01:28This is absurd!

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