REPROHEALTHLAW Updates – June 2025

June 26, 2025:

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DEVELOPMENTS
[Guatemala, abortion] United Nations, Human Rights Committee, Fátima v. Guatemala, CCPR/C/143/D/3629/2019. June 5, 2025. Decision online in Spanish. Spanish backup copy. Official Press release in Spanish. Official Press release in English. Backup copy. [The Committee found that Guatemala violated the ICCPR by denying abortion to a 13-year-old girl raped by a teacher and former child-protection officer.]

[Guyana, safe abortion] “Since the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1995 (MTOPA), Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has experienced a 97% decline in admissions for complications arising from unsafe abortion.” (Fred Nunes, in Stabroek News, May 12, 2025 Article online.

[Norway, abortion] Norway’s revised abortion law, effective June 1, 2025, extends the limit for self-determined abortion (that is, the right to abort without requiring prior authorization from an abortion board) from 12 to 18 weeks of pregnancy. After 18 weeks, specialized committees will replace the current abortion boards to review cases. News report.

[Switzerland] Bundesgericht, [Federal Tribunal of Switzerland] 26 June 2024, Docket # 7B_1024/2023, A.___, gegen 1. Staatsanwaltschaft des Kantons Freiburg und , 2. B.___. [ A. v. Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Canton of Friborg and B, News report in English. Decision in German (scroll down). [Switzerland’s highest court has ruled against a man who had sued his ex-partner for having an abortion after 12 weeks.]

SCHOLARSHIP

Abortion Law Reform in Africa: A Reproductive Health and Rights Perspective, ed. Charles Ngwena, Ebenezer Durojaye, Satang Nabaneh & Nkatha Murungi (Pretoria University Law Press, 2025). Book and chapters online.

[abortion law, Italy] ” ‘How did you get in there and make the law work?’: Feminist activism, doctors and abortion law: the occupation of a hospital,” by Elena Caruso, in: Social & Legal Studies 34.2 (April 2025) 143-167 Abstract and Article.

[abortion law, Nepal] “The case for the complete decriminalization of abortion care in Nepal and beyond,” by Sabrina Germain, Mara Malagodi, Roshani Regmi, Radhika Saxena and Shivani Shinde. The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, vol. 38, July 2025; Abstract and article

[new book] Building Bridges: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality and International Human Rights Law, ed. Alma Beltrán y Puga and Rosa Celorio (Universidad del Rosario and RED ALAS, 2024). 303 pages. Free download.

[obstetric violence] Emerging human rights standards on obstetric violence and abuse during childbirth, by Camilla Pickles. in International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 170 (June 2025) 508-514. PDF at Wiley online.

In Memoriam: Charles Ngwena, by Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens. in International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics.169.2 (May 2025) 456-457. PDF at Wiley Online. [See also, Rebecca Cook’s tribute at 2023 conference.]

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