TIME00213

TIME00213
Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombia
Yes
Abortion
Advance
Court ruling
11-2007
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.