QUITO (AP) — Ecuador's President Guillermo Rousseau allowed abortions by rape in Congress on Tuesday, including organizing abortion deadlines and setting access requirements for such rights.
In a message posted on Twitter, the president said: “My decisions will always be made within the scope specified in the constitutional function. That is why we decided to include our opinion in the bill so that it fits perfectly with the decision of the Constitutional Court.” He said
Also, the doctors' decision on conscientious objections prompted them to extend to abortion requirements. Although the ruler declares himself a defender of life since pregnancy, he suggested respecting decisions that do not fit his ideas. The appeal is made two days before the deadline for legal pronunciation, and the legislator must rule for 30 days.
In mid-February, Congress passed a law on the interruption of so-called rape pregnancies in April, regulating the decision of the Constitutional Court to decriminalize abortion as a cause.
Thousands of rape and abortion crimes are reported each year in the country, but for other reasons, there can be a prison sentence of 5 to 7 years for mothers and 1 to 3 years for those who support them.
The Ecuadorian prosecutor's office registered more than 27,000 rape complaints between 2016 and 2020. 4,884 cases were reported in 2016, 5,045 cases in 2017, 5,667 cases in 2018, and 6,034 in 2019. In 2020 it fell to 5,450, but the decrease was not due to a decrease in crime, but to the fact that the policy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic prevented victims from leaving It's.
According to figures from the Human Rights Office, more than 3,000 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 are pregnant each year, and 12% of adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 have at least one pregnancy.
Among the American countries where pregnancy can be terminated unconditionally are Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba, although cases of rape and incest are also allowed in the United States and Canada, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. Conversely, in Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Venezuela, there are also Mexican countries that have added other causes, but abortion is prohibited, unless it threatens the health of the mother.
El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic prohibit abortion without exception.
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