After 12 hours of debate, the Argentine Senate has agreed to legalize abortion during the first thirteen weeks of pregnancy.
The lower house had already agreed, and that has settled the matter for the legislators.
The country has long struggled with the legalization of abortion and has now taken the plunge by declaring no particular need for artificially terminating the pregnancy until the fourteenth week.
Outside the parliament building, numerous people argued for legalization.
Next year it will be 100 years ago in Argentina that it was first laid down in law that abortion was not punishable under certain conditions.
Abortion is subject to conditions in almost all of South America. Only in Argentina, Guyana, Uruguay and French Guiana are abortion possible without necessary reasons.