2023-04-29 17:19:28
With our correspondent in Rabat, Nadia Ben Mahfoudh
Arrested in their private clinic by agents of the anti-gang brigade, the doctor and his assistant were placed in police custody at the prefecture of Meknes, in the north of the country. The teenager, her mother and one of their relatives have since been released and placed at the disposal of the judicial inquiry.
« The pregnant woman who aborts is punished in the same way as the people who help her, that is to say the doctors, the nurses, the medical assistants, and it can also be her mother or relatives. No one escapes it “says Ghizlaine Mamouni, president of the Kif mama kif baba association for gender equality.
In Morocco, the right to abortion is only possible in the event of danger to the health of the pregnant woman. This is called medical termination of pregnancy (IMG). Betty Lachgare, spokesperson for the Alternative Movement for Individual Liberties (Mali) regrets that voluntary termination of pregnancy is not an option: ” There is no debate around the right to abortion in Morocco. That it exists as an aside, on Instagram, yes. But an official debate, an open debate or actions in favor of the right to abortion, there is none”.
For the moment, a woman who aborts faces up to two years in prison. People who practice abortion are liable to five years’ imprisonment.
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