(9 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quito, Ecuador – 9 July 2024
1. Members of women’s organizations arriving at the Constitutional Court to present a complaint of unconstitutionality to article 149 of the Organic Penal Code for the total decriminalization of abortion in Ecuador
2. Various members of the women’s organizations signing the complaint and handing it
3. Various women showing the petition delivered outside the Constitutional Court
4. Angelica Porras giving statements to the press
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Angelica Porras, Constitutional Lawyer:
"We have just filed the action of unconstitutionality to expel from the Ecuadorian legal system Article 149 of the COIP, of the Organic Integral Penal Code. This article still maintains the criminalization of the woman’s right to decide. As you know, the decriminalization of what is called abortion for rape was previously achieved. This law is not enough, not only because it has a series of barriers that prevent women who have suffered rape can access their right, which is to terminate the pregnancy safely."
6. Press
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miriam Ernest, Director of the National Women’s Coalition of Ecuador:
"And well, they are a series of obstacles, which we want them eliminated and that women can have peacefully, let’s say, the possibility of deciding whether they want to have an abortion or not."
8. Johanna Zambrano giving a statement to the press
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Johanna Zambrano, Member of the Colectivo Tejedora Manabita:
"Women in rural areas do not know and do not have close, safe and truthful information. And that is why we joined this action (to file the lawsuit) because we believe it is our right, we demand it and we believe it is always appropriate to demand our rights in the context of access to sexual and reproductive information; legal and safe abortion must be approved."
10. Various women outside the Constitutional Court
11. Various security outside the Constitutional Court
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ARCHIVE: Quito, Ecuador – 28 September 2023
12. Various shots of hundreds of feminists marching with placards asking the state to make abortion legal
STORYLINE:
Women’s groups filed on Tuesday a lawsuit before Ecuador’s Constitutional Court seeking the total decriminalization of abortion.
In the lawsuit, they are declaring unconstitutional articles of the Penal Code that identify and punish abortion as a crime.
Angelica Porras, of the group Acción Jurídica Popular, said the lawsuit has the objective of eliminating "the criminalization of the woman’s right to decide."
In Ecuador, voluntary termination of pregnancy is legal up to 12 weeks of gestation only when it is the result of rape.
The data on abortion in Ecuador is not close to reality because most of them are performed in clandestine conditions, although according to official figures 611 abortions have been performed since decriminalization for rape.
The Constitutional Court, which must initially admit the request, has no deadline to give an answer.
AP Video: Cesar Olmos
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