Abstract
In the three Southern Cone countries, policies have increased access to abortion to different degrees over the past decade. Yet advances fall short of legalization and public provision. Abortion is limited to specific conditions that require different implementation regimes. In response, feminist lawyers have taken up legal cases and engaged in other forms of cause lawyering related to abortion rights. Drawing on 35 interviews with lawyers and activists in legal collectives in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, this chapter examines the role cause lawyers play in ongoing abortion rights struggles, their litigation strategies, and the transnational connections that foster their work. As one mechanism for expanding democracy, cause lawyers are important resources for each movement. While litigation contexts and strategies vary based on distinct national legal opportunity structures, feminist legal training and networks are instrumental for cause lawyers to secure rights and access to abortion in the Southern Cone.
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