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Andean Group - July 2013 (ISSN 1741-4466)
Bolivia’s constitutional tribunal to review abortion
An “imperialist policy” was how the archbishop of Santa Cruz Sergio Gualberti described abortion, in an unlikely appropriation of the anti-US rhetoric favoured by President Evo Morales. Gualberti is just one of many contributors to the abortion debate that has polarised Bolivia following a recent decision by the plurinational constitutional tribunal (TCP) to accept a request by Deputy Patricia Mancilla of the left-wing ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) to review three articles of the 1972 criminal code, which penalise abortion.
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