Gabriela Cerrano (born 31 May 1977) is an activist in the

Workers' Party (Argentina) The Workers' Party ( es, Partido Obrero, PO) is an Argentine Trotskyist political party. It is the largest national section of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International. In the 2009 legislative election, the ...

who was elected as a provincial senator in

Salta Province Salta () is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy. To the north it borders Boliv ...

in November 2013. In 2014 Cerrano intervened in a legal dispute over whether a 14-year-old girl raped and beaten by her stepfather was entitled to have an

abortion Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pregn ...

. Cerrano went to the hospital where she was being held and demanded her transfer to another hospital to carry out the abortion.

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shortly after her election {{DEFAULTSORT:Cerrano, Gabriela Living people Workers' Party (Argentina) politicians People from Salta Province 21st-century Argentine women politicians 21st-century Argentine politicians 1977 births Women's rights in Argentina