By EFE
27/12/2025
San Juan.— Feminist groups in Puerto Rico are mobilizing against a new law recognizing the unborn as a natural person, warning it could threaten abortion rights despite privacy protections.
The legislation was enacted this week by Governor Jenniffer González and has led to strong reactions from activists, legal experts, and medical professionals.
Abortion is legal in the U.S. territory, but a new wave of anti-abortion proponents are pushing for more restrictions, with some success
by Mariela Santos-Muñiz
March 20th, 2025
Nearly three years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion rights across the country have been dangerously eroded. But the impact on reproductive rights didn’t affect just the 50 states: The case also altered the landscape in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory in the Caribbean made up of about 3.2 million people.
Reproductive rights are still intact in Puerto Rico, as there are legal grounds to support them. The Penal Code considers abortion a crime, but not if it’s performed in the interest of the pregnant person’s health, and the El Pueblo de Puerto Rico vs. Pablo Duarte Mendoza case established that that standard encompasses both the physical and mental health.
Continued: https://prismreports.org/2025/03/20/puerto-rico-abortion-advocates/
Puerto Rico doesn’t restrict abortion. So why is it a struggle for locals to get one?
By Andrea González-Ramírez
December 12, 2022
It was raining despite the sun — the type of weather Boricuas make superstitious jokes about — on a recent Tuesday at Women’s Medical Pavilion, an abortion clinic in Puerto Rico. The eight patients seated around me in the waiting room looked at their phones in silence as a midday entertainment program played on a small TV. Nurses called them to the front desk one by one, referring to them as “mi amor” and “corazón” as they gave an overview of the 15-minute procedure. An abortion seeker seated to my right took a call and told the person on the other end of the line that she was hungry — it was nearly 1 p.m. — because the clinic had instructed her to not eat anything two hours before her visit. Plus, she said, she couldn’t afford to spend money on a meal — not even from the fast-food joint across the street from the clinic’s pink entrance.
Continued: https://www.thecut.com/2022/12/puerto-rico-is-an-abortion-haven-just-not-for-locals.html
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