In February, in Curitiba, a woman was arrested when searching for care for incomplete abortion in an Evangelical hospital. In early March, in Pauí, a 11 yeard old girl who was pregnant after having been submitted to systematic rape by her stepfather was denied the termination by the health service (read more). In Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, a woman experienced a miscarriage at home and called the ambulance, she was denounced by the health professionals and escorted by the police to a hospital, where in the next day she was interrogated by a police officer before being released (check here) . The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) published a note informing (in Portuguese) that it had closed a site that sold Misoprostol on the web. In the State of Rio, two episodes of criminal intervention relating to abortion were registered in less than two weeks. A woman was arrested in a private hospital in the city of Itaperuna when seeking post-abortion care and, in Rio de Janeiro, a clandestine clinic was closed. (all links in Portuguese)
