The voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVE, by its Spanish acronym) was demanded by the feminist movement since the 1970s. In 2005, the National Campaign for Legal, Safe and Free Abortion, an organisation that leads the cause for abortion legalisation in Argentina, was founded. Since 2007, the Campaign has annually submitted an abortion legalisation bill to the National Congress, but it was added to the legislative agenda for the first time in 2018, when then President Mauricio Macri sponsored the debate. The bill was passed by the Chamber of Deputies, but rejected by the Senate. In 2020, Alberto Fernandez fulfilled his campaign promise and sent a new, government-sponsored bill (slightly different to the one written by the Campaign) for legalising abortion on request up to the 14th week of pregnancy. It was passed again by the Chamber of Deputies, and this time, by the Senate, in December 2020.