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The number of clandestine abortions taking place in Brazil is a controversial subject which divides anti-abortion and abortion rights activists. [13] A study published by the International Journal of Women's Health in 2014, estimated that in Brazil about 48 thousand clandestine abortions occurs annually. [14]
2 Timeline of abortion on request. ... Abortion laws vary widely among countries and ... The year refers to when the relevant law or judicial decision came into ...
1997 – A Louisiana law created a civil cause of action for abortion-related damages, including damage to the unborn, for up to ten years after the abortion. The same law also barred the state's Patient's Compensation Fund, which limits malpractice liability for participating physicians, from insuring against abortion-related claims. [107] [108]
Brazil's restrictive abortion laws mean many Brazilian women seeking to end pregnancies resort to unsafe illegal abortions and botched procedures, which cause dozens of deaths every year.
Aside from those exceptions, Brazil’s penal code imposes between one and three years jail time for women who end a pregnancy. Some Brazilian women fly abroad in order to obtain abortions. If the bill becomes law, the sentence would rise to between six and 20 years when an abortion is performed after 22 weeks.
Of the 74,930 people who were victims of rape in Brazil in 2022, 61.4% were under 14 years old, according to a 2023 study of the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, an independent group that tracks ...
In Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, the mayor's office ordered one of the country's few hospitals that performed legal abortions in those exceptional cases - even on pregnancies of more than 22 ...
When the European powers colonized Latin America, they brought with them the Catholic Church's beliefs on reproductive rights. [8] Even today, religion in Latin America is characterized by the predominance of Roman Catholicism, although there is also increasing Protestant influence (especially in Central America and Brazil) as well as by the presence of other world religions.