Abortions are illegal in most cases in the majority of Latin American countries, with the exception of Uruguay, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guyana and French Guyana.

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On the island since the early 1990s, she has trained herself up as a vet, and been a justice of the peace, as well as running the receiver station that monitors the rockets that the European Space Agency launches from French Guyana.

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