Brazil’s top court opened a session Friday that will decide whether abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy will be decriminalized nationwide.
The South American nation currently allows abortions only in cases of rape, an evident risk to the mother’s health or if the fetus has no functioning brain.
Weber said in her decision that Brazil’s standing on abortions does not consider “equal protection of women’s fundamental rights by giving absolute prevalence of the guardianship of the potential life” - the fetus. In 2018, a health ministry official said the government estimated that were about 1 million abortions annually outside the allowed conditions, with the unsafe procedures causing more than 250,000 hospitalizations and 200 deaths.
A case last year shocked Brazilians after a conservative judge blocked for weeks a raped 11-year-old girl from ending her pregnancy in the southern state of Santa Catarina. The girl, who was 10 when she was raped, was in her 29th week when the abortion was finally carried out.
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