ECUADOR-Different social groups are pushing to include this sensitive topic as part of the reforms on the Organic Comprehensive Criminal Code, that National Assembly will be deciding tomorrow.
Different activists highlight that in a poll in July showed that 73,4 percent of citizens are in favor of ending a pregnancy in case of rape.
320 women have been prosecuted for committing abortion. | Photo: Prensa Latina
Congressman Sebastian Palacios said that insecure abortions are the third cause of maternal death in Ecuador, and he also stated that 47 thousand women die every year in the world because of these practices. Furthermore, Palacios stated that fighting this clandestine activity which would stop putting women at risk, is paramount.
According to numbers from Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s office, since 2015 to date there´s been 28 sentences and 320 women have been prosecuted for having an abortion.
Tomorrow every legislator will be able to vote individually not following a specific set of principles or the general opinion of their political party.
