TIME00210

TIME00210
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil
Yes
Abortion
Advance
Social mobilization
10-2007
Brazil: The Federal Medical Council issued Resolution 1752 considering anencephalic fetuses as brain-dead and allowing doctors to remove their organs after birth to be used for transplantation. Resolution 1805 authorizing doctors to perform euthanasia in such cases remained in effect, as did Resolution 1811/2006 affirming that emergency contraception is not an abortifacient.