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Women members of different evangelical churches who participate in a march in favor of the traditional family and opposed to the union of same-sex couples pass in front of a graffiti in favor of the legalization of abortion painted by feminist organizations in Caracas on July 13, 2023. Venezuela, a fervently Catholic and conservative country, punishes "induced abortion" with sentences of up to six years. The penalties, according to the 1926 penal code, reformed in 2005, are reduced when the abortion involves saving the "honor" of the woman or her family and are pardoned if it is provoked to "save the life of the woman in labor". (Photo by Magda Gibelli / AFP) (Photo by MAGDA GIBELLI/AFP via Getty Images)