The Justice Commission began the analysis of the bill to guarantee the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the event of rape, in compliance with the ruling issued by the Constitutional Court. Law contains 49 articles, 2 general provisions, 8 transitory provisions and 8 reform provisions.
The project has among its axes comprehensive care for victims and quality of care, with rules on the object, purpose, principles, rights, obligations, process to access the voluntary interruption of pregnancy due to rape, resources and guarantees of the victims , right to reparation for victims and promotion of this right.
After warning that sexual violence is one of the most recurrent crimes in the country with irreparable effects, she said that every day 7 girls between 10 and 14 years old have given birth; 2 out of 10 births are teenagers, 4 out of 10 women who have their first child are teenagers and according to the statistics of the State Attorney General’s Office, on average, 10 women are raped every day.
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