TAG: abortion laws

Our sexual and reproductive rights are not negotiable!

As the pace of Brazilian presidential election campaign accelerates once again abortion rights are caught into the eye of the storm. Last week, the Ministry of Health suspended a recently adopted ordinance aimed at precisely identifying abortion procedures in those cases permitted by law and defining new levels of financial coverage for these procedures. Beatriz […]

Brazil: the abortion frontline

In Brazil, not surprisingly, abortion has once again flared up in the path towards the next Brazilian presidential election campaign. The presidential candidate of the PSB, Eduardo Campos, said during a Catholic mass in the Basilica of Aparecida do Norte, that he is against abortion and that Brazilian law as it is is not to be […]

International Statement on Women’s Right to Safe Abortion and the Post-2015 Agenda

Preliminary list of signatories and the statement in English and Spanish.

Brazil’s abortion nightmare: Why one desperate woman lied about rape

Article by Aljazeera highlights the difficult choices Brazilian women are forced to make when trying to end a pregnancy in the country with the largest Roman Catholic population in the world. Here.

In Unprecedented Assault, Koch Brothers Aim for Anti-Choice Senate in 2014

Read Reality Check‘s article about the movement by the Koch Brother to support anti-choice organizations in the context of the mid-term congressional elections this year. Click here to read it.

Constitutional court issues decision on abortion restrictions in Bolivia

In a ruling that marks a significant step forward for women’s rights in the region, Bolivia’s highest court, the Plurinational Constitutional Court, issued a decision ending the requirement for judicial authorization for women seeking legal abortion in Bolivia. Click here to learn more.

Groups Sue Government of El Salvador Over Treatment of Beatriz, Criminalization of Abortion

Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion in El Salvador, the Feminist Collective for Local Development, CEJIL (Center for Justice and International Law) and Ipas Central America filed suit against El Salvador State on the case of Beatriz, a young woman who, despite carrying an anencephalic fetus, had to fight in justice to make the […]

Anatomy of the War on Women

Read RH Reality Check’s article “Anatomy of the War on Women: How the Koch Brothers Are Funding the Anti-Choice Agenda”, where the author criticizes that “while one sector of the American conservative establishment funds LGBT rights and marriage equality worldwide, the other sector propels a war against the right of women to decide”. Here.

Ecuador’s Left punishes women rights

By Manuela L. Picq* A debate on abortion suspended the voting on the new penal code in the Ecuadorian Congress this week. Congresswoman Soledad Buendía, from President Correa’s party Alianza PAIS, made a forceful move demanding that Article 149 of the Constitution legalizes abortion in cases of rape. Her motion was supported by congresswomen María […]

“Abortion education under pressure in U.S. medical schools”

Read the article “Abortion education under pressure in U.S. medical schools”, in which it highlights the battle at the state level in the United States to curtail abortion services. Click here.