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Marielle Franco is a city council woman in Rio de Janeiro. Franco was elected in 2016 as a member of the leftist Socialism and Liberty Party. Since being elected, she has focused extensively on improving accessibility of abortion services in Brazil and proposed a new law that would "oblige all of Rio’s health professionals to be trained in the process of legal abortion." The Afro-Brazilian Franco was born and raised in the Complexo da Maré favela s in the north of the city and dropped out of school at 18 when she became pregnant. She was born in 1979 and holds a degree in a social sciences.