CHILE-ABORTION-UPR-CYCLE4

Incoming recommendations: (Link)

• 24.160 Adopt measures to guarantee access to information on sexual and reproductive health services, including termination of pregnancy, particularly in rural areas and among people in vulnerable situations (Mexico) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.161 Ensure all women’s and girls’ full access to sexual and reproductive health services, including safe and legal abortion services without delays or barriers (New Zealand) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.164 Extend the scope of Act No. 21.030 to ensure access to abortion in accordance with human rights standards and World Health Organization guidelines (Denmark) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.165 Eliminate all barriers that hinder access to abortion in cases prescribed by law (Norway) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.166 Initiate the process of adopting a legal framework aiming at decriminalizing abortion (Czechia) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.167 Bolster efforts to ensure the effective implementation of the law decriminalizing voluntary termination of pregnancy (South Africa) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.168 Take measures so that Act No. 21.030, which regulates the decriminalization of abortion, is applied throughout the national territory (Spain) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.169 Decriminalize abortion, in particular when there is a risk to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or when the pregnancy is the result of incest (Sweden) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.170 Adopt a system to ensure and facilitate access to safe and legal abortion services throughout the country, without obstacles or delays, to all women and girls, without discrimination and taking into account the structural challenges of the most vulnerable populations (Switzerland) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.171 Ensure access to safe and legal abortion services, as provided by law (United Kingdom) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.172 Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances (Iceland) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.173 Review the current abortion law’s conscientious objection provisions and monitor the correct implementation of the law to ensure full access to safe abortion services (Netherlands) [SUPPORTED]
• 24.176 Ensure that women and girls have full access to reproductive health services, including comprehensive sexuality education, and – in response to sexual and gender-based violence – safe and legal abortion services without barriers or delays (Canada) [SUPPORTED]

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Outgoing recommendations:

• Amend legislation to ensure safe, legal and effective access to abortion when the life of the pregnant woman or girl is at risk, especially in cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape, or when it is not viable (to Dominica)
• Consider including exceptions to the laws that criminalize termination of pregnancy, making abortion legal in cases of rape, risk to the mother’s life and fetal inviability (to Madagascar)
• Reform its legislation in order to guarantee that women can access voluntary termination of pregnancy in cases of rape and foetal non-viability (to Malta)

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