Far-right group “Aguilas Negras” reportedly sent a death threat to judges of Colombia’s Constitutional Court for legalizing abortion. According to newspaper El Espectador, the death threat that was sent to…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque rejected a constitutional court decision to decriminalize abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy. According to Duque, “five people can’t set the guidelines on something…
Women in Colombia are free to end pregnancies until the 24th week after insemination, the Constitutional Court said in a historic ruling. Until Monday, women were only allowed to abort…
A former guerrilla associate was sentenced to 40 years in prison for carrying out forced abortions on former ELN and ERG guerrillas, according to the prosecution, which had blamed the…
Colombia’s constitutional court declined to vote on a magistrate’s proposal to legalize abortion, leaving the current ban and its exceptions in place. Magistrate Alejandro Linares proposed to legalize abortion in…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court is studying the legalization of abortion after an anti-abortion activist filed a petition for a blanket ban. Reports about magistrate Alejandro Linares’ proposal to legalize abortion during…
Almost three out of 10 of the almost 5,833 criminal complaints filed against women who illegally had an abortion in Colombia since 1998 involved rape victims, according to newspaper El…
Colombia’s constitutional court on Friday ordered the country’s justice ministry, the prosecution and health experts to justify why abortion would be a crime. The top court summoned the opinions of…
Colombia’s Catholic Church is opposing a government initiative to regulate abortion as ordered by the country’s Constitutional Court. In a letter to Health Minister Juan Pablo Uribe, church leader Monsignor…