Clashes erupt after Ecuador fails to decriminalize abortion for rape victims
by Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá from on (#4QNCY)
Pro-choice activists say decision is a death sentence, after illegal abortions resulted in 15.6% of maternal deaths in 2014
Clashes have erupted between pro-choice demonstrators and police outside Ecuador's national assembly after lawmakers rejected a bill which would decriminalize abortion in cases of rape.
Abortion is illegal in Ecuador except in cases where the life of the mother is in danger, or if the pregnancy is the result of the rape of a woman with mental disabilities.
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