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Agustina Ramón Michel
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Abortion in Latin America. More Than Criminalization, Not Yet Women’s Constitutional Right
2018
Latin America abortion law is often categorized as seriously restricted. And this is so, partially. Abortion is criminalized if it does not fit in the legal indications (e.g. health risk, rape) contemplated. These indications have not only been one of the most innovative areas to expand access to legal abortion in the region in the last years – including rulings of high courts – but they also question the typical classification of Latin America as an extremely legal constrained setting. In fact, if we look closely at the world legal map, we find that only two countries have absolutely ruled out the use of criminal law to deal with voluntary abortion (Canada and few jurisdictions in Australi…
EL DERECHO A BENEFICIARSE DE LOS AVANCES CIENTÍFICOS Y LOS LÍMITES A LA DISCRECIONALIDAD ESTATAL LA SALUD REPRODUCTIVA EN AMÉRICA LATINA
2018
Las mujeres de paises desarrollados rara vez mueren de hemorragia posparto y casi nunca por un aborto, las mujeres en America Latina si. La mayoria de estas muertes son evitables, y el misoprostol y mifepristona ayudan a prevenirlas. El misoprostol tiene varios usos obstetricos, incluido el tratamiento de la hemorragia posparto y el aborto incompleto. La mifepristona tiene como principal uso la interrupcion del embarazo. Las ventajas de estos farmacos han motivado un aumento de uso por parte de profesionales de la salud y mujeres, transformando las experiencias del aborto y disminuyendo los abortos inseguros. Sin embargo, en Latinoamerica pocos paises tienen registrados estos medicamentos p…
Re-Thinking the Use of Conscientious Objection by Health Professionals: A Regulatory Proposal Based on Legal Abortion Practices in Argentina
2019
“Ninety percent of health-care practitioners will not perform abortions,” warned physicians in Chaco, a province in north-eastern Argentina, during the debate in Argentina’s Senate to extend the legalization of abortion in July 2018. Around this same time, in a nearby province, Misiones, every physician in one hospital declared that they would register as conscientious objectors should the legislation prove successful. Just a few days earlier, Argentina’s press reported that more than 200 girls had been raped and forced to give birth in Misiones, without access to legal abortion under the rape indication. In Argentina abortion is legally permitted in cases where a pregnancy presents a risk …
Constitutional developments in Latin American abortion law.
2016
Abstract For most of the 20th Century, restrictive abortion laws were in place in continental Latin America. In recent years, reforms have caused a liberalizing shift, supported by constitutional decisions of the countries’ high courts. The present article offers an overview of the turn toward more liberal rules and the resolution of abortion disputes by reference to national constitutions. For such purpose, the main legal changes of abortion laws in the last decade are first surveyed. Landmark decisions of the high courts of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico are then analyzed. It is shown that courts have accepted the need to balance interests and competing rights to ground less res…