Women during a march to commemorate UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (Photo: ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images)
Until now, the Dominican Republic was one of the few nations with a complete ban on abortion. The law did not allow exceptions for the health and safety of the woman; rape or incest; or severe fetal abnormality. That changed on December 19, when President Danilo Medina put into effect a new Criminal Code that allows abortions under the above-mentioned circumstances.
This is an important victory for the Dominican women’s human rights groups’ network, Collectiva Mujer y Salud, as well as the many international activists who put pressure on the Dominican government to make these changes. Thank you to everyone who took action!
Unfortunately, similar change has not yet happened in El Salvador. Abortion remains illegal under all circumstances. Women like Beatriz are forced to continue pregnancies that threaten their health and even their lives. In the case of Beatriz, it did not even matter that the fetus she was carrying was unlikely to survive outside of the womb. Rape and incest survivors as young as nine are further traumatized as they are forced to carry the resulting pregnancies to term. Poor women who suffer miscarriages risk spending decades in jail when they seek help from public hospitals.
As in the Dominican Republic, there are Salvadorans working to change this law—the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization Abortion. Please add your voices to theirs by signing Amnesty International’s petition urging Salvadoran President Salvador Sánchez Cerén to
- decriminalize abortion in all circumstances so as to eliminate jail time and other punitive measures for women and girls seeking abortion, as well as for health care providers performing abortion services, where consent is fully given
- ensure access to abortion, at the least, in cases of rape or incest, where the woman’s health or life is at risk, and where the fetus is unlikely to survive
- release all women and girls who are imprisoned for abortions or miscarriages
- guarantee access to contraception and provide comprehensive sexual education
The Dominican Republic has taken an important step forward in terms of the rights of women and girls. Now it is El Salvador’s turn!
As in the Dominican Republic, there are Salvadorans working to change this law—the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization Abortion.
This is an important change by President Danilo for women. Surely there are circumstances when an abortion is the only way out. This is good news for women.
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Women during a march to commemorate UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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It may seem like a sexist assumption but it rings true for the majority of couples with young children.
Gender inequality doesn't start at home, it starts in the workplace and society. If women are lower paid, are being discriminated against at work because of pregnancy or motherhood or even at the prospect of either it is more likely to be the father who remains in full time employment. Paternity rules aren't changing enough, a real shift would be both parents being able to take 6 months paid at the same time, by insisting the mother goes back to work for the father to take leave the government is calling the bluff that little will change anyway.
Many couples make this choice for purely economic reasons. If the father is paid more that is usually the deciding factor. Technically childcare costs affect the unit but in reality the cost is compared against the wages of whoever returns to work second, usually the mother.
It is just as lazy to assume that families need to be shown the way to liberation (and how to think about their familial and finacial arrangements) the issue needs to get in society and business valuing parents more and offering genuine flexibility to workers.
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