TIME00458

TIME00458
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil
Yes
Abortion
Advance
Litigation
08-2016
Brazil: A petition was filed asking the Brazilian state to guarantee the reproductive rights of women during the Zika epidemic. It also asked for the state to ensure women’s access to information, their access to long-term contraceptive methods in the public health system, the provision of repellent as part of prenatal check-ups, access to the best test currently available to meet the risks they are facing, the right to choose to keep or terminate a pregnancy (when clinically diagnosed with Zika), and, in the case of the birth of babies with microcephaly, access to economic support.