“In addition, the availability of safe and affordable services in public hospitals may be limited by a shortage of health professionals trained in legal abortions, or because they have insufficient knowledge of abortion laws,” said Siri Suh, a medical sociologist at Brandeis University who has conducted research on reproductive health in Africa. One of the questions that arose was: why© up to 24 weeks? The verdict took into account in this sense several studies, which ± that the fetus feels pain in these first weeks before the procedure, since the nerve endings of the fetal brain are fully formed only in the sixth month of pregnancy: “It can be concluded that the fetus can not feel pain in any way before this stage of pregnancy “, according to a scientific study by the UK Department of Health at the Royal College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians. It was the first country in the world to fully legalize abortion in 1920, although it has been banned over time, it is currently legal until the woman is in the 22nd week of pregnancy and state health insurance covers her. Abortion in Spain is legal for 14 weeks and up to 22 weeks for medical reasons. Last month, Chief Justice John Roberts said the U.S. is an international exemption to approve abortions when the pregnancy is already more than half its duration. He said the deadline puts the U.S. on an equal footing with North Korea and China. Laura Gil is a gynecologist and co-founder of the Medical©Group for the Right to Decide, part of Causa Justa. Before filing its complaint with the Colombian court, the medical©group analyzed all the abortion deadlines that exist in different countries. From the state of Texas, which covers six weeks, to the 12 in Uruguay or the 14 in Spain±a and Germany, to name just a few examples. There are all kinds of deadlines and none of them obey objective, medical©or scientific criteria. Week 24 has an objective criterion.

Today, with state-of-the-art technology, a baby born at 24 weeks could be saved, Gil analyzes the criterion adopted by the court. This is the same approach that was adopted ± years before other countries such as Holland or the United Kingdom. For the doctor, the different deadlines respond to political negotiations, which end up setting a “random number until anti- and pro-parties feel comfortable” to advance a law. “Under the rules, access to abortion remains out of reach for many women in the United States,” said Risa Kaufman, U.S. human rights director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which opposes abortion restrictions in U.S. courts and oversees international law. “This is in contrast to many countries, including those in Western Europe, that provide access to subsidized and fully funded abortion services, universal health coverage, contraception and broader social programs.” Chile was one of the countries with a total ban until 2017, when parliament approved lifting the ban on abortion in cases of rape, risk to women or fetal inability. Most European countries have introduced their abortion laws through laws with political agreements. In the United States, the viability limit originated in the Supreme Court.

Michael New, a researcher at The Catholic University of America who advocates for greater restrictions on abortion in the United States, said this difference in the process could explain why the pregnancy line is broader in U.S. law than in most countries under similar conditions. In general, the possibility for a pregnant person to have a legal abortion is set between the 12th, 16th and 24th week of pregnancy at most. In countries such as Austria, Belgium©, Denmark, Spain, Finland±, France, Greece, the Netherlands and Italy, the rules are clear by mentioning that the procedure can be performed up to the 12th week, and in cases where fetal abnormalities incompatible with life are detected, it can be performed up to the 24th week. This occurs mainly in Spain, Finland, Greece and ±United Kingdom). In some, it is legal for up to a certain week, while in other countries, such as Iran, women are not allowed to decide independently whether to terminate their pregnancies. It has been 12 ± years since the abortion law was passed in Spain, which set ± 14th week. Francisca Garcãa, president of the Association of Accredited Clinics for Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (ACAI), shares the thesis of her Colombian counterpart.

[14] was established by a random question, a law similar to the rest of the European laws was made. There is no criterion of consideration such as the viability of the fetus, as is the case in the Netherlands, he explains over the phone©. The Spanish government`s decision ± was based on the recommendations of a committee of experts that, in a 49-page report, examined the different deadlines and laws of European countries to guarantee women`s© rights. Most countries adapt to the first trimester of pregnancy. Week 14 was recommended in the document. “We proposed that women can decide until 22-24 years old because there are no medical©problems for another term, but purely political problems,” Garcãa said. Secondly, other countries have a policy in which they allow abortion in certain cases and conditions: on the other hand, the court`s decision represents a significant step forward in the recognition of women`s rights and positions Colombia among the countries that have a longer period to perform an abortion. In this context, it is important to note ± only Azerbaijan and Belarus exceed the number of weeks imposed in the judgment, as in both countries women have access to the trial up to the 28th week, followed by Colombia and Russia with 24 weeks, Georgia with 22, Ukraine with 21 and New Zealand and Hungary with 20. In the case of European Union countries that have insisted that this reproductive right be recognized worldwide in countries such as Spain, France±, Belgium©, Austria and Germany, the limit on access to the procedure is 14 weeks. In other wealthy democracies, public health insurance covers the cost of abortion, as do other reproductive health services, including contraceptives. In Ireland, for example, the cost of an abortion is fully covered, any GP can perform the procedure and there is a government hotline for access to an abortion or a nurse during recovery.

The two judges demand that the jurisprudence be changed and thus the possibility of banning the crime of abortion from the penal code. It was his first initiative. However, this newspaper knew of two documents that could put a spin on the subject. The lawyers in the working hours they want to present to the plenary and the two judges make it clear that they want to keep the three existing grounds and decriminalize abortion by week 24. This discovery is a relief, because for a long time, some self±proclaimed prolife movements said they would harm the ±fetus” at this point. However, the argument outweighs scientific research aimed at providing accurate information to women who choose to have an abortion. He had pointed out in one of his sections that the Court`s analysis and the international cases examined by the Supreme Court clearly showed that the partial criminalization of abortion in the last stage of pregnancy corresponded to constitutional objectives, since the protection of life came into play, which was already consolidated and would serve to live independently.