The Minister of Health said that the State needs to guarantee rape victims the termination of pregnancy, according to current legislation
The Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade, said that she follows “with great concern” the debate on the PL 1,904 of 2024, which became known as the abortion bill. She said that the State needs “to guarantee” to victims of rape the conditions to carry out the procedure, as provided for by law, and that the text is “unjustifiable and inhumane”.
“We need to guarantee care in the SUS for girls and women who are victims of rape and are at a disadvantage, as recommended by the 1940 Penal Code”said Nísia Trindade on her profile on X.
The minister also said that it is necessary to allow, according to the law, women to have an abortion in cases of fetal anencephaly, but misspelled the disease in the post published on your profile.
The Minister of Health, who is a sociologist, said that her position was in “complete agreement” with the position of the Minister of Women, Cida Gonçalves, who stated that the project is “unconstitutional”.
“We cannot accept that what little we have to guarantee rights for girls and women is destroyed at this moment”he stated in an interview with CNN Brazil on Thursday (June 13, 2024).
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