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Almost 1,700 rape victims faced illegal abortion charges in Colombia in past 20 years
by Adriaan Alsema February 5, 2020
Almost three out of 10 of the almost 5,833 criminal complaints filed against women who illegally had an abortion in Colombia since 1998 involved rape victims, according to newspaper El Tiempo.
The daily got the statistics from a prosecution report, which was asked to provide the Constitutional Court with information as the court is reconsidering the current ban on the voluntary termination of pregnancies.
Abortion in Colombia is legally allowed in cases a pregnancy is the result of rape, threatens the life of the pregnant woman or girl, or would result in the birth of a child with life-threatening malformations since 2006.
Taking women to court
In almost 80% of the 5,833 criminal complaints that were received over the past two decades no charges were filed, mainly because prosecutors saw no merit in them or they were retroactively ended after a 2016 order to file all investigations against women whose rape was legal according to the 2006 court ruling.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/almost-1700-rape-victims-faced-illegal-abortion-charges-in-colombia-in-past-20-years/
