Ética y científicamente, despenalizar el aborto es un desacierto

Abstract

An analysis is made of the text sent by the National Academy of Medicine to the Constitutional Court, where several petitions through which the decriminalization of abortion directly looked for in certain circumstances are supported. Based on the findings from recent research, it can be inferred that it has not been understood whatever the so-called “previous and rigorous ethic-medical analysis” was, as to lead the National Academy of Medicine to recommend the Constitutional Court to disrespect the right to live of every human individual - in this case particularly with regard to those who are undergoing their intratubal and intrauterine growth and development stages. It is shown that the legalization of abortion is a factor contributing to increase maternal and perinatal morbidity-mortality rates; and the example of Poland serves to illustrate that the boom of international politics in this respect is not necessarily due to the relevance of decriminalization. Moreover, some - indeed efficient - medical and educative policies are put forward.

It can be concluded that the UNO report on maternal mortality worldwide (2005) enriches the evidences leading to believe that its commissions - like the CEDAW and the Human Rights Committee - designed to monitor certain international treaties and for some time tending to recommend the legalization of abortion in our Latin American countries and other parts of the world, shall no longer affirm that there is an alleged “right to abortion” - let alone that it should be secured by national and international laws for supposed public health reasons - but, instead, switch their position from effectively promoting to efficiently preventing abortion.