By Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI) The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil held a public hearing on a case designed to result in the legalization of abortion for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The lawsuit ADPF n. 442 (or Arguição de Descumprimento de...
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Brazil’s Abortion Activists Hamstrung by Pro-Life Victory in Argentina
By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. NEW YORK-- (C-Fam) Abortion groups want Brazil’s Supreme Court to bypass the country’s legislature and declare the Brazil’s abortion laws unconstitutional. But pro-life politicians, who make up the majority of the country’s Parliament,...
Brazilian court decriminalizes abortion by stealth
Editors’ note. This comes from our friends at SPUC---the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children On Tuesday, the Federal Supreme Court, Brazil's highest, dropped the charges against five people accused of performing clandestine abortions, on the grounds that...
Women on Web temporarily suspends sending abortifacients to women in Brazil
By Dave Andrusko The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the pro-abortion organization Women on Web has been almost completely unsuccessful in shipping chemical abortifacients to women in Brazil. According to a highly sympathetic story written by Ann M. Simmons and...
Strong majority of Brazilians reject abortion for women infected with Zika virus
By Dave Andrusko Brazil is, if not the epicenter of the Zika virus, certainly a country with more than its fair share of exposure to the virus which has been associated with, but not proven to cause microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with undersized...
The wrong solution to Zika-caused microcephaly
Activists are trying to spook governments into allowing abortion. Don't do it, says a woman with the condition. By Michael Cook The World Health Organization has warned that 4 million people in Latin America could be infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus before...