Ecuador & Colombia Abortion Policy Crises Reveal Betrayal

On 17 February 2022, the Ecuador National Assembly approved the worst of two abortion bills.  The legislators drafted the bills in response to a mandate from the Ecuador Constitutional Court—even though the Court ruling violated the Constitution. . . . This bill has now gone to President Guillermo Lasso, who has already said he is not going to approve it but has 30 days to fully or partially veto the bill.  Pray he fully vetoes the abortion bill!  

On 20 February 2022, the Constitutional Court of Colombia issued a 5-4 arbitrary and unconstitutional decision that abortion is to be allowed up through 24 weeks of pregnancy; and put no gestational limits on its prior approval (in 2006) of abortion for life or health of the mother, rape, or fetal abnormality if certified as necessary by a doctor.  Several of the judges, even one who voted in favor of abortion, said the Constitutional Court could not strip the Congress from its competence in legislating such matters.  But that’s what the Court did.