UN recommends Ecuador to decriminalize the abortion in cases of rape

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), recommended Ecuador this March 6 it should decriminalize the abortion in cases of rape, incest and serious malformation of the fetus:

“The parliamentary discussions regarding the Penal Code did not consider the decriminalization of abortion even in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape, incest or severe fetal malformation,” reads the report.

In addition, experts requested to the country to “implement as a priority the Clinical Practice Guidelines for therapeutic abortions and train health actors to make the conditions in order for a therapeutic abortion to be interpreted in a uniform manner throughout the country.” They recalled that “the limited access that women have to therapeutic abortion results in the realization of unsafe interruptions to the pregnancy.”