BREAKING: Abortion has been safe and free in Cuba for over half a century (and still is) [View all]
Abortion has been safe and free in Cuba for over half a century
Abortion has been safe and free in Cuba for over half a century. The first abortion law dates back to 1936, and allowed abortion on the same three grounds as were just approved in Chile this year. But due to social and government tolerance, private clinics offered abortions to Cuban women who could pay for them as well as women from other countries, especially the USA before 1959. In spite of criticism from the conservative religious sector, the law was reformed in 1965 to say that it is the woman who decides, abortion needs to take place at a hospital carried out by expert staff and it needs to be totally free. Then in 1987, the Penal Code, which is still in force, established that abortion is only a crime when it is done for profit, outside of health institutions, by non-medical staff or against a woman’s will.
https://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/news/cuba-abortion-has-been-safe-and-free-in-cuba-for-over-half-a-century/
Can you imagine that the brutal dictatorship allows for this? Free countries ban abortions, right?
As a Cuban, imo, the "brutal dictatorship" is not good at being brutal nor is it good at being a dictatorship.
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