Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso partially vetoed a law regulating voluntary abortions for female victims of rape, reducing the termination of pregnancy for abused girls to 12 weeks.
In a letter posted on Twitter, the Conservative president wrote that he “decided to comment on the bill to ensure that it fully complies with the decision of the Constitutional Court.”
The legislature, with the opposing majority, must decide whether to accept the 30-day government amendment or approve the original document on February 18.
The National Assembly states in law that women under the age of 18 who have been raped in rural areas can have an abortion within 18 weeks of pregnancy, while adults and people living in urban areas can have an abortion within 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The lasso, the only term of the 12th week of pregnancy with the right of veto, affirmed that “we are all equal” before the Constitution and that “the establishment of legal differences between citizens according to the conditions of their place of birth or place of birth violates the fundamental principles of the Constitution.”
Last April, the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court expanded access to abortion in a rape case. Prior to this decision, only women with disabilities or at risk of death were allowed to voluntarily terminate their pregnancy.
In Ecuador, women who have abortions for reasons that are not authorized are sentenced to up to two years in prison.
- “A painful reality” -
Left-wing Democratic MP Johanna Morella, who announced the bill, tweeted that the short delay “will only affect the poorest and most forgotten, causing the deaths of our women in hiding”.
“President @LassoGuillermo has a partial veto and does not understand the painful reality that our girls live every day.” I talked about Morella.
According to official data, Ecuador has the third highest teenage pregnancy rate in Latin America, with seven children under the age of 14 giving birth every day.
The sovereign, who said he disagreed with the law, submitted 61 comments on the document. These include conscientious objection by medical personnel to military service and the need for abortion in the event of rape.
The former right-wing banker Lasso said in a letter: “The Constitutional Court explicitly ordered the legislator to make abortion requests in rape cases; however, the General Assembly did not actually do so.”
For example, the leader said in a document sent to the National Assembly that the law “does not provide for the obligation to conduct medical examinations of victims in order to identify violations and protect their health, nor to gather evidence for criminal investigations.”
One of Lasso's requests was to file a rape complaint.
The feminist group Surkuna claims that, according to the prosecutor's office, there were around 42,000 rape complaints between August 2014 and November 2021.
Last week, members of the United States House of Representatives asked Lasso to enact an abortion law without changing rape. Through this rule, Tamara Talasik Bronner, director of Inter-American Human Rights Watch, said that the president “has the opportunity and responsibility to fulfill the campaign's commitment to upholding the rule of law.”
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