Green scarf

The green scarf (Spanish: pañuelo verde) is a symbol of the abortion-rights movements, created in Argentina in 2003 and popularized since 2018 throughout Latin America and then in the United States in 2022.

[3] Two years later, in 2005, the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion was born, and the green scarf was adopted to represent the movement.

[1][2][4][6] According to one of the participants of the XVIII National Meeting of Women, there was also a pragmatic reason: they wanted to distribute scarves but they did not find enough purple fabric, the color of feminism, however there was enough green available.

[11] In May 2022, the green scarf was also used in the United States during the marches in defense of the right to abortion, threatened by a possible overturn of Roe v. Wade decision.

[1][2][7][8] In June 2022, after the supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, protests broke out in many cities in the United States,[12] with some protestors using green scarves with the inscriptions "RiseUp4AbortionRights" and "Green4Abortion".