A high court on Monday decriminalized the abortion in Colombia until the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, an unprecedented ruling for this country with a Catholic majority that places it in the orbit of Latin American countries that released this practice.
The “conduct of abortion It will only be punishable when it is carried out after the twenty-fourth (24) week of gestation,” the Constitutional Court said in a statement. After the initial stage of pregnancy, the conditions already set by the court will govern, which only endorses the abortion in case of rape, if the mother’s health is at risk or when the fetus has a malformation that compromises its survival.