Justice Luís Roberto Barroso | abortion-news.info

Special Announcement: Symposium on Brazilian Abortion Ruling

—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School
Feb 3, 2017

Late last year, in an historic ruling for the region, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Brazil held that a criminal prohibition on procuring an abortion before the end of the first trimester violates the fundamental rights of women as well as the principle of proportionality.
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Later this month, I-CONnect will publish an online symposium on this controversial and important decision–controversial because the Court split 3 to 2 and the judgment has stirred much debate among lawmakers, and important because the judgment has broken new ground in the region. The symposium will feature perspectives from scholars around the world.

Below, we publish the syllabus of the case; the full translation will be published as part of the symposium.

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Source, iConnect: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2017/02/special-announcement-symposium-on-brazilian-abortion-ruling/

Case involving employees of an abortion clinic could set precedent for allowing abortions at the beginning of pregnancies
By plus55 on Nov 30, 2016

Four Brazilian Supreme Court Justices ruled on Tuesday that abortion should not be a crime when performed in the first three months of pregnancy. The decision concerns a specific case around employees of a clandestine abortion in Rio’s metropolitan area. It could, however, set a precedent for broader decisions on the issue.

For Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, the anti-abortion articles in the Criminal Code disrespect women’s basic rights. “Women bear alone the burden of pregnancy. Therefore, there will only exist gender equality if women have the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy or not,” he wrote in his decision.

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Source: Plus55.com