The Fight For Abortion Rights In The Dominican Republic

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Dominican Republic has one of the harshest anti-abortion laws in the Americas, but a legal reform might be closer than ever before. In recent months, women’s rights activists have taken the streets to protest in favor of the “three causales”—three circumstances under which abortion would be allowed: when the fetus is nonviable, when the woman’s life is at risk, or when the pregnancy is the result of a rape or incest. The approval of these three ‘causales’ has been a decades-long battle, because conservatives and the Catholic church still have a big influence in the country. In this episode, we speak with Dominican journalist Amanda Alcántara to learn more about how women are fighting for their reproductive rights on the island.

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1:04.0	In the R, the maternal death rate is already higher than the average in Latin America.
1:09.0	At 95 deaths per 100,000 births.
1:14.0	Other numbers show that 20% of those deaths are byproduct of unsafe abortions.
1:21.0	So these strict laws are not stopping abortions in the DR.
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