After that, the February 21st the Constitutional Court issued a ruling through which it gave free rein to the Voluntary termination of pregnancy until the 24th week of gestation. The National Academy of Medicine pronounced itself assuring that it would have been convenient to authorize the abortion without exceeding the 14th week of gestation as the deadline.
“For doctors, the ethical conflicts and technicians when it comes to a advanced gestationwith a live fetus, healthy, that responds to pain, that has a facial expression, that is capable of listen, yawn and kick, and that it possesses the reflexes of prehension and suction. The interruption of pregnancy in this circumstance would force to paralyze pharmacologically the fetal heart which is equivalent to cause death of a being that might live independently of the mother with adequate medical assistance, ”says the ANM in its statement.
In fact, it states the National Academy of Medicine that, faced with this, under no circumstances may the doctor be forced to act as causal agent of abortion and, for this purpose, it will always be respected conscientious objection. He even proposes to elaborate a document to serve as the basis for a bill with details on abortion that might discuss in the next legislature.
This organization It also recommends the development of public policy that they contribute to the prevention of unwanted pregnancies, through programs of sex educationeasy access and availability of contraceptive methods. Also consultancies psychological before and following the voluntary termination of pregnancy.
