{"id":6553,"date":"2026-08-06T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=6553"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:26:04","slug":"dominican-republic-abortion-ban-constitutional-court","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/es\/news-and-stories\/dominican-republic-abortion-ban-constitutional-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Un caso llega a los tribunales: un punto de inflexi\u00f3n en la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana"},"template":"","class_list":["post-6553","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-news","article_format-news","issue_tax-legal-abortion","location-dominican-republic"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"article_type":26,"article_format":171,"authors":"","add_button":false,"button_type":"","button":null,"download":null,"download_button_text":"","featured_image":6409},"sidebar":{"issues":{"title":"Cuestiones prioritarias","issues":[34]},"locations":{"title":"Ubicaci\u00f3n","locations":[95]},"partners":{"title":"Socios","partners":""}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_article","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_hero_article":{"":null,"anchor_id":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dominican Republic's new Penal Code (Law 74-25) took effect on August 3. Lawmakers had years of debate and every opportunity to include the three exceptions. They chose not to. The new code keeps the total abortion ban in place, with no exceptions, which makes the case now before the Constitutional Court the clearest remaining path to change. The stakes described below just got higher.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFor the first time, the fight against one of the world's most extreme abortion bans has a hearing inside the Dominican Republic's highest court. A case brought by Rosa, the mother of a young woman who died after being denied lifesaving care, is now before the Constitutional Court. After more than a decade of advocacy, that fact alone is a milestone \u2014 a sign that a struggle long pushed to the margins has reached the center of the country's legal life. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That ban has now been carried, unchanged, into the country's new Penal Code, in force since August 3, 2026.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Por qu\u00e9 este caso es importante ahora<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dominican Republic enforces a total abortion ban. It allows no exceptions \u2014 not when a pregnancy results from rape, not when the patient is a child, not when continuing a pregnancy will end the patient's life, and not when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb. Under this framework, seeking care can be treated as a crime, and the providers people turn to in a crisis can face prosecution for helping.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosa's case asks the court to recognize what advocates across the region call <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">las tres causales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 three minimal exceptions: when a pregnancy results from rape, when the pregnant person's life is at risk, and when the fetus cannot survive. These are not radical demands. They are the floor that much of the world already takes for granted, the bare minimum required to keep a law from harming the very people it claims to protect.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That the Constitutional Court is now hearing the case is itself the news. For years, this conversation lived in the streets, in clinics, and in the determination of families who refused to let their stories be forgotten. Now it lives in the highest chamber where the country's laws are tested. A hearing is not yet a victory \u2014 but it is the door through which a victory becomes possible.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Una madre que se negaba a soltarlo<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosa's daughter was sixteen when she died, denied the treatment her doctors knew could save her because she was pregnant. In the years since, Rosa has carried her daughter's name from grief into action, working alongside a F\u00f2s Feminista partner organization and a broad coalition of feminist advocates to bring the case to this point. Her persistence is the reason a closed question was reopened, and the reason the court must now answer it.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esto es lo que mejor saben hacer los movimientos feministas: se niegan a aceptar que una ley injusta sea permanente. Convierten una p\u00e9rdida privada en una demanda p\u00fablica. Y siguen adelante mucho despu\u00e9s de que los titulares hayan pasado a otro tema, que es precisamente la forma en que un caso como este perdura el tiempo suficiente para ser escuchado.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What the court's attention does not erase<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funcionarios dominicanos han se\u00f1alado cifras alentadoras de salud p\u00fablica este a\u00f1o, incluyendo una disminuci\u00f3n reportada en la mortalidad materna. Estos logros son reales, y las personas que trabajan en los sistemas de salud dominicanos merecen cr\u00e9dito por ellos. Pero el progreso medido en promedios no llega a la persona que se encuentra al borde de una excepci\u00f3n que no existe: la paciente con c\u00e1ncer, la superviviente de violencia, la ni\u00f1a que lleva un embarazo que no puede continuar de forma segura. Un pa\u00eds puede reducir sus n\u00fameros generales y aun as\u00ed dejar a personas espec\u00edficas sin ninguna v\u00eda legal para recibir atenci\u00f3n. Las v\u00edctimas de estas leyes rara vez aparecen en las estad\u00edsticas. Esa es parte de la raz\u00f3n por la que tales leyes perduran.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Una resoluci\u00f3n favorable tampoco disolver\u00eda todas las barreras de la noche a la ma\u00f1ana. Aun con las tres excepciones reconocidas, las personas seguir\u00edan enfrentando miedo, estigma y un sistema de salud que ha sido ense\u00f1ado a tratar a los pacientes como riesgos legales. El caso judicial es un comienzo, no un final.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parte de una noticia regional<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lo que est\u00e1 sucediendo en la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana no es un caso aislado. En toda Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe, estas mismas cuestiones se est\u00e1n resolviendo en los tribunales, las cl\u00ednicas y las asambleas legislativas. En algunos lugares, el <a href=\"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/es\/news-and-stories\/a-brief-history-of-the-green-wave\/\">Ola verde<\/a> ha ampliado el acceso; en otros, medidas recientes han dificultado que las sobrevivientes m\u00e1s j\u00f3venes de violencia accedan a la atenci\u00f3n que la ley ya les otorga. Los derechos que existen solo en el papel, o solo donde un proveedor est\u00e1 dispuesto a actuar, a\u00fan no son derechos seguros. El progreso en un pa\u00eds fortalece el argumento en el siguiente, y un rev\u00e9s en cualquier lugar presiona a todos.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Por eso la solidaridad transfronteriza importa m\u00e1s cuando una pregunta sigue abierta, no despu\u00e9s de que se haya decidido. F\u00f2s Feminista trabaja junto a aliados liderados por feministas en la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana y en toda la regi\u00f3n, ofreciendo recursos, visibilidad y apoyo constante para que los defensores locales puedan continuar mientras la lucha lo requiera.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qu\u00e9date con esta historia<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los casos judiciales avanzan lentamente, a menudo lejos de la vista del p\u00fablico, y la atenci\u00f3n tiende a dispersarse antes de que llegue el resultado. Esa dispersi\u00f3n no es neutral, es la condici\u00f3n bajo la cual sobreviven las leyes extremas. Rosa no permitir\u00eda que su hija se convirtiera en una nota al pie de p\u00e1gina. Lo m\u00ednimo que podemos hacer el resto de nosotros es seguir observando, seguir aprendiendo y apoyar a los movimientos que impulsan esto.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El caso ya est\u00e1 ante el tribunal. 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