Tue Feb 22, 2022 – 12:21 pm EST
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (LifeSiteNews) — Colombia’s constitutional court has ruled in favor of legalizing abortion for the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.
The Monday ruling took place at an extraordinary session attended by nine judges. In the end, five of them voted in favor of abortion.
Pro-lifers held a “Silence of the Innocents” sit-in outside the court. Hundreds of coffins representing aborted babies were placed on the sidewalk.
Feminists and pro-abortion activists also held demonstrations and called for the “total decriminalization of abortion.”
Following the ruling, the constitutional court issued a statement declaring that abortion “will only be punishable when it is carried out after the twenty-fourth (24) week of pregnancy and, in any case, this time limit will not apply to the three cases established in ruling C-355 of 2006.”
The three cases allow abortion if a woman’s life is in danger, a fetus has malformations, or a pregnancy resulted from rape.
With the new ruling, these three “grounds for abortion” will remain in place with no gestational limit, while abortion in all other cases will become legal all the way up to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
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