Colombia’s Attorney General Pushes Catholic Hospitals to Provide Abortions
Colombia’s Attorney General, Edgardo Maya, is disappointed that only 40 decriminalized abortions have been carried out since 2006, when the nation’s Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion in cases of rape, incest, fetal deformity, or threats to their life or health.
Maya wants more such certified abortions to take place, and is insisting that to accomplish this goal the nation’s private medical institutions will have to provide abortions, despite conscientious objection by Catholic hospitals and institutions in which all doctors have refused to carry out the procedure.