Our series begins in Buenos Aires, the birthplace of the Green Wave. In 2020, ​Argentina achieved a milestone by legalizing abortion up to 14 weeks. But a new right-​wing president could potentially jeopardize this progress.

We meet feminist lawyer Soledad Deza, who represented Belén, a woman who was ​imprisoned for an obstetric emergency and whose story catalyzed what would become ​an international movement; and we speak with Marta Alaniz, the founder of the ​Argentina chapter Catolica por el Derecho de Decidir (Catholics for the Right to ​Decide). Marta, a Green Wave icon, recounts how the green scarf became the symbol ​of the movement: “how much can be said without saying anything at all?”

As the Green Wave reaches the shores of the US in a perilous time for reproductive ​freedom, our resident expert and feminist lawyer Ximena Casas explains that what ​Argentina has achieved, and what the Green Wave continues to do, can serve as both ​a warning and a blueprint for success for Americans invested in the fight to protect ​our bodily autonomy.