In 2022, Colombia became the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to allow abortion up to 24 weeks and to recognize it as a right linked to the autonomy of women and persons with gestational capacity. In the first year of the ruling alone, the lives and health of 49,000 women and other persons with gestational capacity were protected, according to Profamilia figures.
The decision of the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) towards a more inclusive, just and humane public health policy is a step towards the guarantee of the right to health, as well as “a sign of the clear understanding that the termination of pregnancy is a health service like any other,” said Mara Zaragoza, deputy director of the ISSSTE, in a statement.said Mara Zaragoza, Deputy Director of Strengthening at Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean (Ipas LAC).
Ipas LAC recognizes ISSSTE’s willingness to guarantee the reproductive rights of women and other people with the capacity to bear children for government workers and their families.
El Salvador, December 20, 2024. “I just want to live,” Beatriz said 11 years ago. Beatriz was a young mother of a small child, sick with lupus and living in poverty. In 2013 she faced a second high-risk pregnancy, in which the fetus was diagnosed as having anencephaly, meaning that it had not developed a brain, a condition incompatible with life outside the womb.
El Salvador, December 20, 2024. “I just want to live,” Beatriz said 11 years ago. Beatriz was a young mother of a small child, sick with lupus and living in poverty. In 2013 she faced a second high-risk pregnancy, in which the fetus was diagnosed as having anencephaly, meaning it had not developed a brain, a condition incompatible with life outside the womb.
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