Forensic medical analysis on judicial authorization for legal abortion in Ecuador: a current review

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Introduction: This analysis has a medical and legal approach to a situation that has
been stigmatized and legally denied in our country, we are talking about the performance of a legal abortion in the event of an unwanted pregnancy due to rape.

General Objective: To determine the importance of the medical legal assessment and
its fundamental contribution to national justice in cases of legal abortions by conducting an orderly search of the bibliography available in database.

Methodology: The following theoretical review includes: systematic reviews, case-control studies, cohort studies, review studies, guidelines and protocols, free bases and legal
regulations, Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, Organic Codes, and other laws.

Expected Result: The aim is to provide theoretical and legal bases to shed some light on
decision-making to decriminalize legal abortion in our country starting from the medical
legal viewpoint; in addition to justifying why that decision was made based on bibliography and laws that govern our nation.

Conclusion: Legal medicine, as a branch of medicine, jointly with justice and the study
of the laws per se are the cornerstones that are taken into account by the Ecuadorian
State, through its justice entities, to consider legal abortion in cases of sexual violence,
specifically rape, as legal and feasible within our territory, thus delivering a favorable
ruling for the support of surviving victims of these heinous and inhuman crimes.