These were the scenes of joy and happiness on the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the early hours of December 30 when the news came through that abortion would finally be legal.

Footage shows large crowds of women dancing, singing and waving placards, all adorned with the colour green, which is synonymous with the pro-choice movement in South America.

"We are living this historic moment in which our struggle became law," said a member of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion.

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1. Various of the celebrations of the protesters in favor of abortion in the Argentine early morning

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After 4 in the morning and when the result of the vote that enshrines legal voluntary abortion in Argentina was known, the celebrations of the pro-abortion protesters that surrounded the Congress broke out.

"We are living the historic moment in which our struggle became law", say in this Argentinean morning members of the Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion, at the beginning of the celebrations in Congress for the legalization of the interruption voluntary pregnancy (IVE).

The green badge that identifies the fight for the right to legal abortion in Argentina illuminates this morning the dome of the national Parliament, where the Senate signed the legalization of abortion into law, while thousands of people sing and dance to celebrate the approval of the norm.

Cries, hugs and applauses from the young women, great protagonists in the last two years of the protest in the streets, completed a picture that was anxiously awaited by a sector of the country: full access to the right to abortion.

From the stage of the Campaign they highlighted that “It will no longer be law, it is law. After 15 years of struggle "and they invited to deconcentrate with" joy and tranquility".