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The Revised Penal Code supplanted the 1870 Spanish Código Penal, which was in force in the Philippines (then an overseas province of the Spanish Empire up to 1898) from 1886 to 1930, after an allegedly uneven implementation in 1877.
An analysis by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs concluded that although the Revised Penal Code does not list specific exceptions to the general prohibition on abortion, under the general criminal law principles of necessity as set forth in article 11(4) of the Code, an abortion may be ...
In the Philippines, abortion has been illegal and criminalized for over a century. This is mainly due to Spanish colonial-era influences in Filipino life, notably Catholicism. It is under the Penal Code 1870 that abortion was first criminalized, and from there the Revised Penal Code 1930 adapted the same criminalizing law.
[10] [11] [8] In the 1930s, several countries (Poland, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Mexico) legalized abortion in some special cases (pregnancy from rape, threat to mother's health, fetal malformation). In Japan, abortion was legalized in 1948 by the Eugenic Protection Law, [12] amended in May 1949 to allow abortions for economic reasons. [13]
Activists in the Dominican Republic protested on Wednesday against a bill for a new criminal code that would keep in place the country’s total abortion ban. The Dominican Senate gave initial ...
1970 – South Carolina and Virginia reformed their abortion laws based on the American Law Institute Model Penal Code. 1970 – The New York Senate passed a law decriminalizing abortion in most cases. [50] Republican Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller signed the bill into law the next day. [51] The 1970 law did several things.
The court rejected arguments from abortion advocates, including Planned Parenthood of Arizona, which asked the court to uphold the state’s 2022 law that allowed abortions up to 15 weeks.
Japan: The punishments for abortion grew more severe in 1907 when the penal code revised: women could be incarcerated for up to a year for having an abortion; practitioners could be jailed for up to seven. [22] The Criminal Abortion Law of 1907 is still technically in effect today, but other legislation has overridden its effects. [22]