Lucía Benavides

Lucía Benavides is a Barcelona-based reporter, producer and writer. Originally from Argentina, she was raised in Texas from a young age. She has years of experience in radio reporting, feature writing and international coverage — having filed from Spain, Italy, Senegal and Russia. Before Barcelona, Lucía worked at the NPR affiliate in Austin, Texas.

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Activists Say Romania Has Been Quietly Phasing Out Abortion

Daniela Draghici knows firsthand what an abortion ban looks like. In 1976, when she was a college student in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, she got pregnant after her contraception failed. Abortion was prohibited in…
| Lucía Benavides

Abortion is illegal in Malta. Activists are trying to increase access.

Last September, gynecologist Isabel Stabile stood outside the Maltese Parliament with a group of activists on International Safe Abortion Day, holding signs that said: “Abortions are safe and necessary” and “My body is not a…
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Catalonia’s temporary tele-abortion services are a game-changer for women with limited access

When 41-year-old Ana Vargas found out she was pregnant this February, her decision to abort didn’t come easily. Her experience with an abortion four years ago was unpleasant. She had to make the one-and-a-half hour…