Organizations ask for a law without deadlines or obstacles.
On April 28 of this year, the Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion in cases of rape. From that date, until now, 54% of the cases have been by girls between the ages of 10 and 14.
Ana Verá, from Surkuna, released some of the figures that have been compiled in these seven months of validity of the sentence, which stipulated that girls, adolescents and women can access abortion in cases of rape until the law is drawn up in the National Assembly.
You see, she mentioned that there are 22 cases registered since April 28, which she, she said, breaks the myth and prejudice that, now, all women want to have an abortion. 16 cases occurred in hospitals of the Ministry of Public Health.
The rest preferred to do it in private hospitals, due to the cumbersome procedures or to avoid revictimization.
Of the total cases, 54% were girls between the ages of 10 and 14 who requested the procedure. This confirms the figures of the Prosecutor’s Office on the most vulnerable group and with the highest rates of sexual violence.
It is followed by the group of women between 31 to 35 and 18 to 24 years old. Most of the cases were in Pichincha, Sucumbíos and Morona Santiago. In the Amazon, above all, they were girls under 14 years of age, with 27.3% being indigenous girls and women.
In addition, 95.5% of the cases the aggressor formed apart from the family group.
Verá reported that the interruption of pregnancies, in the case of girls, between 18 and 23 weeks of gestation.
For the Law that is elaborated and the National Assembly they ask that it have no deadlines, precisely because children under 14 cannot identify the changes or cycles in their bodies and it is other people who identify the pregnancy.
In addition, they reported that the time it took, from the request for termination of pregnancy to the day of the procedure, took 6 to 8 days.
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