Around the world, young women are leading the movement for sexual and reproductive rights. 18-year-old student Yael Crupnicoff shares how young women in Argentina won the fight to legalize abortion 👇 -- I was a sophomore in high school when the movement for reproductive rights [in Argentina] gained increased momentum. It is often referred to as the "green wave" because of the green handkerchiefs that we wore in support of it. These called for abortions to be legal, free and safe. Getting a country with deeply conservative roots and a large Catholic population to think of reproductive freedom as a human right was no easy task. We were met by enormous backlash, a lot of which was rooted in misinformation and misogyny. Through the power of demonstrations, art, education and most importantly, meaningful conversations with others, we made abortion a public issue. Reproductive rights went from being something that only a handful of people cared about to an issue that dominated the public conversation. On the bright summer day when the bill finally passed in December 2020, I watched it all happen alone from my house, because the pandemic kept me from standing in front of Congress again. On that day, I thought about the girls who would come after me, who will someday, hopefully, think of abortion the way I think about voting or education or divorce. I wanted every girl to know that we'd swum these tumultuous waters for them just like I knew that the women before me had done it for us.