Commission recommends change to penal code

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The Executive Commission for Public Health Sector Reform (CERSS) has recommended to the executive branch that therapeutic abortions be allowed under the penal code. The commission reminded the executive that other nations have legalized this practice, especially in cases of rape and where a fetus suffering from degenerative hereditary defects is involved. The commission also pointed out that if the law is passed as it now stands, it will be limiting the freedom of a rape victim to express her desire to terminate the pregnancy. While recognizing the right to life as consecrated in the Constitution of the Dominican Republic and the American Convention on Human Rights, the commission also said that they felt that there were cases that deserved an exception do exist, such as the case of an unviable fetus that threatens the health of the mother.

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