Current issue on Abortion in Trinidad

Innocent human lives are being taken away each day and men and women are hurting from the consequences of abortion. It is estimated that on this small island with a population of 1.2 million that close to 20,000 abortions are carried out each year. This figure indicates that over 55.5 babies are being aborted each day. With this in mind, we see the great need for more crisis pregnancy centers. At present, abortion is illegal in Trinidad but there is a group that is lobbing to have abortion legalized so that it will be even more easily accessible.

http://www.ttgapers.com/News/2004/8/10/planned-parenthood-targets-trinidad-and-tobago-tolegalize-abortion/

Situational_Analysis_Trinidad_Tobago.pdf
http://www.ippfwhr.org/sites/default/files/files/SI_Final_Booklet.pdf The Law of Abortion in Trinidad and Tobago

Laws of Trinidad and Tobago [year?]. Offences Against the Person. Chap. 11:08 56-57 at p.21 ATTEMPTS TO PROCURE ABORTION

56. Every woman, being with child, who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means whatsoever with the like intent, and any person who, with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means whatsoever with like intent, is liable to imprisonment for four years. 57. Any person who unlawfully supplies or procures any poison or other noxious thing, or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used or

employed with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she is or is not with child, is liable to imprisonment for two years.