Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities. Colombia: Sentence T-988/2007 (Villavicencio) – The claimant, D.D., requested an abortion for her disabled daughter who became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, but the health care provider (known as an EPS in Spanish) refused. D.D. presented a tutela, but judges ruled against her, arguing that an abortion would endanger her daughter’s life. Her daughter finally secured an abortion outside the EPS. The Court ruled that the EPS had ignored Sentence C-355/06 and warned it against presenting similar obstacles to future cases of abortion requests for women with disabilities.

El Salvador: The Supreme Court rejected the actions of unconstitutionality filed in 1998.

UN Human Rights Committee: The L.M.R. case was presented to the committee.

Argentina: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner elected president.

Brazil: PL 2690 – Presentation of a bill criminalizing the advertising and promotion of abortive methods or substances (“illegal abortion”).

Colombia: Sentence T-209/2008 (Cúcuta) – The claimant, B.B., requested an abortion for her young daughter, who had become pregnant as a result of rape. Despite the fact that B.B. had filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor regarding the rape, her daughter was denied an abortion by her health care provider. The court ruled that the health care provider had violated the young woman’s fundamental rights in refusing to perform the procedure. Specifically, it decided to (1) revoke the decisions of the first and second instance courts; (2) order the health care provider and the health professionals who attended the case to pay damages; and (3) investigate the judicial officers.

Venezuela: The Constitutional Branch of the Supreme Court issued a ruling deeming discrimination based on sexual orientation as unconstitutional.

Venezuela: The Constitutional Branch of the Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that there is no constitutional protection for same-sex partnerships; only the legislature can confer such protection.  

Peru: General elections (president and Congress).

Argentina: Reform of the Penal Code was proposed to extend the grounds for legal abortion and to decriminalize abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.