Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. Reproductive health and human rights advocates testified today in Washington, D.C. on women’s rights issues, including discrimination, violence and reproductive rights violations in the Dominican Republic.
Despite clear and consistent evidence that restrictive abortion laws do nothing to decrease the prevalence of abortion, the Dominican Republic is one of six countries in Latin America that completely bans abortion with no explicit exceptions. According to the Guttmacher Institute, about one million women…
