Unborn protection v. rape victims rights: abortion decriminalization in Ecuador: – Part III

The Ecuadorian Abortion Law is once again at the center of public constitutional debate. Moreover, at the moment there are six claims of unconstitutionality at the Court coming from different pro-life and pro-choice social movements.

Abortion decriminalization in Ecuador: a constitutional journey – Part I

Since April 2022, Ecuador, a small Latin American State, joined the league of the countries that allow abortion in rape cases. The process started with a constitutional claim in August 2019 and ended up with the publication “by the ministry of law” of the Law to Regulate The Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in Rape Cases. Let’s track the most critical points of this legislative evolution.

Abortion decriminalization in Ecuador: a constitutional journey – Part II

We have already briefly analyzed some controversies around the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador to declare unconstitutional the criminalization of abortion in rape cases in 2019. Let’s analizye the discussions around the law and it’s final text.

The inflation of concepts

A reflection of the director of the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.