TIME00360
Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombia
Yes
Critical event
Neutral/neither
Litigation
01-2013
Colombia: Lawyer Hernando Salcedo Tamayo filed an action of annulment against the Ministry of Health’s authorization of the inclusion of misoprostol in the country’s obligatory health plan, arguing that the ministry “aims to include a medication that not is pharmacological, because it ends life and, in addition, is forbidden from being supplied to minors under 14 years of age.”