TIME00183

TIME00183
Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombia
Yes
Abortion
Advance
Court ruling
05-2006
Colombia: Constitutional Court issued Sentence C-355/2006 carving out exceptions to the Penal Code’s criminalization of abortion, allowing women to terminate pregnancies if the pregnancy poses a risk to the woman’s life or her physical or mental health and in cases of rape, incest, or fetal impairments incompatible with life.