{"id":244190,"date":"2021-04-29T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=244190"},"modified":"2021-04-28T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T04:22:12","slug":"ecuadors-constitutional-court-decriminalizing-abortion-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ecuadors-constitutional-court-decriminalizing-abortion-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador’s Constitutional Court rules in favor of decriminalizing abortion in cases of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ecuador’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday voted<\/a> 7-2 in favor of decriminalizing abortion in cases of rape. The court’s judges ruled that two articles in the country’s penal code are unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ruling paves the way for the laws to be changed and will allow the court to force the National Assembly to change those two articles in the constitution or issue an order, including deadlines and guidelines for doing so. Currently, abortion is legal in Ecuador when the woman’s life or health is considered to be at risk, though deliberately killing a preborn child is never truly medically necessary<\/a>. Abortion is also legal in Ecuador for women with intellectual disabilities who have been raped. Any other woman who undergoes an abortion could face jail time.<\/p>\n

Just hours prior to the ruling,\u00a0Mar\u00eda de Lourdes\u00a0Alc\u00edvar, the wife of President-elect Guillermo Lasso, tweeted<\/a>, “We pray to God that abortion is not approved in our country. It is murder.”<\/p>\n

However pro-abortion groups celebrated the ruling and one of Ecuador’s most well-known pro-abortion activists, Lolo\u00a0Mi\u00f1o,\u00a0tweeted<\/a>, “I am crying as I write this because I don’t believe it! Today, girls and women who are the victims of rape in Ecuador have a second chance.”<\/p>\n

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Mi\u00f1o fails to see the hypocrisy in her statement, which is that the babies of these victims are victims themselves who are never given even their first<\/em> chance at life, as it is violently torn away from them. Abortion supporters consistently dehumanize preborn human beings, but none<\/em>\u00a0are dehumanized more than those who have been conceived in rape. Mothers of children who were conceived in rape and adults who know they were conceived in rape have shared horrible stories of abortion supporters calling them or their children “rapist’s babies<\/a>” and “spawn of Satan<\/a>.”<\/p>\n