FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION IN BOLIVIA
Commitment description:At Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir Bolivia, we commit to continue to put political pressure on our government to ensure that abortion is legal, accessible, safe and available as part of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services, seeking the elimination of any regulation that restricts or penalizes it, preventing deaths due to unsafe abortions and ensuring the pre- and post-abortion care and services necessary. We also commit to continue working on the social fabric that we are all part of to achieve the social decriminalization of abortion and to eliminate all stigma against it.
Mode of engagement:
- Change or creation of legislationIncidencia política para la modificación de la normativa actual.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
