Abortion: Corporación Miles Accuses Disproportionate and Stigmatizing Criminalization
The organization conducted a study analyzing judicial cases for alleged abortions between 2012 and 2022. Among other findings, they detected violations of professional secrecy by health officials. Corporación Miles presented a study that analyzes the judicial treatment of alleged abortion cases between 2012 and 2022. The organization, dedicated to defending reproductive rights, analyzed 459 judicial […]
She arrived for an obstetric emergency and left with a criminal record
Almost 10,000 women were investigated in the last decade for abortions, in many cases involuntary. A new study shows that, even if effective imprisonment is not applied, the financial, labor, and mental health effects cause severe damage to the women who are reported. Yesenia was still bleeding when two police officers entered her hospital room. […]
Four out of Five Women Indicted for Abortion Were Convicted by Brazilian Justice, Study Points Out
Research by the Anis Institute mapped judicial processes related to abortion in Brazil between 2012 and 2022. Four out of five women indicted for having an abortion—or allowing an abortion in another person—were convicted by Brazilian justice between 2012 and 2022. This information comes from the map of judicial processes on abortion in Brazil created […]
Cruelty Made Routine
The report “Cruelty Made Routine” has just been published, focusing on the criminalization of abortion in Peru between 2012 and 2022. It presents data on how people who have abortions end up facing unjust legal processes without guarantees. The report analyzes 100 judicial sentences and 15 criminal files, finding a pattern of “due process violations, […]