Despenalización del aborto en casos de violación en el Ecuador.

Abstract

In Ecuador, the incidence of sexual crimes against women, girls and adolescents is high, crimes that in some cases go unpunished, despite being typified in the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code. The effects of rape also generate physical lacerations, psychological and emotional trauma, is that an unwanted pregnancy can be generated, initiating the decision to have the baby (abortion) or not. Action that is currently not allowed except if it occurs in a woman who suffers from mental disability or that is in danger of death Decriminalizing abortion in cases of rape is an issue that not only encompasses the legal field, since the social and religious connotation generates great challenges for its approval within the national territory. This present work includes the analysis of the incidence that would generate the decriminalization of abortion in cases of rape in view of the probable solution to various social problems that may arise due to psychological, emotional trauma and morality that this sexual crime causes to the victim; and, therefore, to the child that is born of this crime.