Abortion in Ecuador

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Abortion in Ecuador is illegal except when performed in the case of a threat to the life or health of a pregnant woman (when this threat cannot be averted by other means) or when the pregnancy is the result of rape, including but not only a sexual crime against a mentally disabled woman where her legal representative has consented to the abortion.^[1] In 2021, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled for the decriminalization of abortion in all cases of rape.^[2]

The Ministry of Public Health provides guidelines on therapeutic abortion.

In Ecuador, there is strong political opposition to abortion; in 2013 then president Rafael Correa threatened to resign if the abortion law was liberalized.^[3] As of 2015, nearly 100 criminal cases of illegal abortion were under investigation.^[4]

In 2015, Ecuador was urged by CEDAW to decriminalize abortion in cases of rape and incest (under law abortion at the time it was legal only if the woman is mentally disabled) and severe fetal impairment (which is also illegal).^[4]

References

^ "Ecuador: Abortion Law". Women on Waves. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
^ "Ecuador's top court decriminalises abortion in rape cases". France 24. 2021-04-29. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
^ "Ecuador abortion: President Correa threatens to resign". BBC News. 2013-10-11. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
^ ^a ^b "Ecuador: Adopt UN Recommendations on Abortion Law". Human Rights Watch. 2015-04-22. Retrieved 2021-11-05.

External links

"Illegal abortion in Ecuador". Women on Waves. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

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