The Supreme Court resolved to authorize the legal abortion in Buenos Aires City

October 12, 2012
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The Supreme Court’s Office authorized an abortion in Buenos Aires City, to a woman who was a victim of a human trafficking network.

The court ruled: “The measure to be taken is the most conclusive demonstration of how to be undertaken by the judiciary of the nation, the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the exhortation given by the Court for prosecute refrain from access to non-punishable abortions. “

The Court took action in the case because of a conflict of competence born as a result of the presentations made on, and with mixed results, by the Civil Association for the Promotion and Defense of Life (Pro Familia) first before Justice in Administrative and Tax of the City of Buenos Aires and then, after the rejection of its claim for October 5 resolution, at the National Civil Justice, where he obtained a favorable resolution on October 9 last.

The presentation of Pro Familia had been given after the Mayor Mauricio Macri announced that the abortion was to be held on Tuesday at the Hospital Ramos Mejía City.

An anti-abortion civil association filed a writ of amparo, and the National Judge Myriam Estrada Rustan, by the Civil Court No. 106, issued a preliminary injunction that prevented the intervention.

The decision was appealed by the woman and by the city government, and then the judge was put away on Thursday because of the decision of the House, who assigned the case to his counterpart Miguel Ricardo Güiraldes.

The resolution of the Supreme Court was signed by 6 of the 7 judges: Ricardo Lorenzetti, Elena Highton de Nolasco, Carlos Fayt, Juan Carlos Maqueda, Raúl Zaffaroni and Carmen Argibay, but Petracchi firm was not in the document.