An unprecedented regional report shows that the criminalization of abortion effectively functions as a human rights violation.
The study, which analyzes 611 cases from six countries in the region, documents the human rights violations faced by women, girls, and adolescents along “the path of criminalization,” which often begins within health care systems and extends to justice systems that fail to provide even minimal safeguards, thereby deepening inequalities and amplifying social stigma. Latin […]
Regional report records 611 cases of abortion criminalization across six countries.
The regional initiative *Salud Sin Miedos* presented the report *Por una Salud Sin Miedos*, a study that analyzes 611 cases of criminalization of abortion that occurred between 2012 and 2023 in Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay. The study places these cases within a broader context of 10,848 women, girls, and adolescents […]
Justice system convicts four out of five women reported for abortion, study says
A study conducted by the NGO Anis Bioethics Institute and released this Tuesday (1st) pointed out that four out of five women reported for having an abortion—or for permitting an abortion for another person—were convicted by the Justice system. The survey mapped judicial proceedings regarding abortion in Brazil between 2012 and 2022. It analyzed 402 judicial documents against […]
Brazil had 218 women imprisoned for abortion between 2012 and 2022, study reveals
Criminal law is not the solution for regulating abortion
The author of this column, written for CIPER, reviews the main findings of the ‘National Report on the Criminalization of Abortion in Chile,’ presented this January 9. She notes that the penalization of pregnancy termination ‘has stigmatized women and girls facing obstetric emergencies, has imprisoned innocent women and girls, and has reinforced the stigma toward […]
1,000 women a year are criminally reported for having an abortion in Peru
Every day in Peru, women who seek help at public healthcare services for an abortion end up being reported and criminally prosecuted by the justice system, according to a study by Proyecta Igualdad titled Cruelty Made Routine: The Criminalization of Abortion in Peru (2012–2022). The investigation reveals that between 2012 and 2022, 9,962 women were criminally […]