The decriminalization of abortion is not the final goal.

Here in Peru, abortion is not a legal surgery to have in any hospital. Some feminist
manifestations around Latin America make abortion sound like it is the solution to many
problems women have, but is this true?

As any surgery, an abortion can have its complications and it would need the collaboration of
doctors and nurses who agreed to help with it and the availability of an hospital bed for the
woman to recover. Sadly, COVID created long waiting list for surgery in the hospitals.

Surgery for many illnesses is like a last resource to cure them, prevention being always the
most ideal option. Let’s start with asking for better sexual education laws for children all over
the country, education for them and for the health professionals so they always give condoms
and morning-after pill to the teenagers who need and ask for them.

Unsafe abortion, defined as the end of pregnancy carried out by untrained personnel and/or in
a space with no medical standards, it causes 58 deaths per year in Peru according to INEI in
2015.