{"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\/pt\/news-and-stories\/dominican-republic-abortion-ban-constitutional-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Um Caso Chega ao Tribunal: Um Ponto de Virada na 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":"Quest\u00f5es priorit\u00e1rias","issues":[34]},"locations":{"title":"Localiza\u00e7\u00e3o","locations":[95]},"partners":{"title":"Parceiros","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 que este caso \u00e9 importante agora<\/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;\">as tr\u00eas causais<\/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;\">Uma m\u00e3e que se recusou a desistir<\/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;\">\u00c9 isso que os movimentos feministas fazem de melhor: eles se recusam a aceitar que uma lei injusta \u00e9 permanente. Eles transformam perdas privadas em demandas p\u00fablicas. E eles continuam muito depois que as manchetes seguem em frente, que \u00e9 precisamente como um caso como este sobrevive tempo suficiente para ser ouvido.<\/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;\">Autoridades dominicanas apontam para dados encorajadores de sa\u00fade p\u00fablica este ano, incluindo uma queda na mortalidade materna. Esses avan\u00e7os s\u00e3o reais, e as pessoas que trabalham nos sistemas de sa\u00fade dominicanos merecem cr\u00e9dito por eles. Mas o progresso medido em m\u00e9dias n\u00e3o alcan\u00e7a a pessoa que est\u00e1 \u00e0 margem de uma exce\u00e7\u00e3o que n\u00e3o existe \u2014 o paciente com c\u00e2ncer, a sobrevivente de viol\u00eancia, a menina com uma gravidez que n\u00e3o pode continuar em seguran\u00e7a. Um pa\u00eds pode reduzir seus n\u00fameros gerais, mas ainda assim deixar pessoas espec\u00edficas sem nenhum caminho legal para o cuidado. As v\u00edtimas dessas leis raramente aparecem nas estat\u00edsticas. Essa \u00e9 uma das raz\u00f5es pelas quais tais leis persistem.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uma decis\u00e3o favor\u00e1vel n\u00e3o dissolveria todas as barreiras da noite para o dia. Mesmo com as tr\u00eas exce\u00e7\u00f5es reconhecidas, as pessoas ainda enfrentariam medo, estigma e um sistema de sa\u00fade que foi ensinado a tratar pacientes como riscos legais. O caso no tribunal \u00e9 um come\u00e7o, n\u00e3o um fim.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parte de uma hist\u00f3ria regional<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O que est\u00e1 acontecendo na Rep\u00fablica Dominicana n\u00e3o \u00e9 um caso isolado. Em toda a Am\u00e9rica Latina e no Caribe, as mesmas quest\u00f5es est\u00e3o sendo decididas em tribunais, cl\u00ednicas e legislaturas. Em alguns lugares a <a href=\"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/pt\/news-and-stories\/a-brief-history-of-the-green-wave\/\">Onda Verde<\/a> ampliou o acesso; em outros, medidas recentes tornaram mais dif\u00edcil para as sobreviventes mais jovens de viol\u00eancia terem acesso ao cuidado que a lei j\u00e1 lhes garante. Direitos que existem apenas no papel, ou apenas onde um provedor est\u00e1 disposto a agir, ainda n\u00e3o s\u00e3o direitos seguros. O progresso em um pa\u00eds fortalece o argumento no pr\u00f3ximo, e um rev\u00e9s em qualquer lugar pressiona a todos.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c9 por isso que a solidariedade al\u00e9m das fronteiras importa mais quando uma quest\u00e3o ainda est\u00e1 em aberto, n\u00e3o depois que ela foi decidida. A F\u00f2s Feminista trabalha junto com parceiros liderados por feministas na Rep\u00fablica Dominicana e em toda a regi\u00e3o, oferecendo recursos, visibilidade e apoio cont\u00ednuo para que os defensores locais possam continuar pelo tempo que a luta exigir.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fique com esta hist\u00f3ria<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Casos judiciais avan\u00e7am lentamente, muitas vezes longe do olhar p\u00fablico, e a aten\u00e7\u00e3o tende a se desviar antes que o resultado chegue. Esse desvio n\u00e3o \u00e9 neutro, \u00e9 a condi\u00e7\u00e3o sob a qual leis extremas sobrevivem. Rosa n\u00e3o deixaria sua filha se tornar uma nota de rodap\u00e9. O m\u00ednimo que n\u00f3s, o resto, podemos fazer \u00e9 continuar observando, continuar aprendendo e ficar ao lado dos movimentos que levam isso adiante.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O caso est\u00e1 perante o tribunal agora. A janela para a solidariedade est\u00e1 aberta agora.<\/span>","":null,"anchor_id":""}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Case Reaches the Court: A Turning Point in the Dominican Republic - F\u00f2s Feminista<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/pt\/news-and-stories\/dominican-republic-abortion-ban-constitutional-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_BR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Case Reaches the Court: A Turning Point in the Dominican Republic - F\u00f2s Feminista\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/pt\/news-and-stories\/dominican-republic-abortion-ban-constitutional-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"F\u00f2s Feminista\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-06T13:26:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Fos-O.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2499\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1837\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fosfeminista.org\\\/news-and-stories\\\/dominican-republic-abortion-ban-constitutional-court\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fosfeminista.org\\\/news-and-stories\\\/dominican-republic-abortion-ban-constitutional-court\\\/\",\"name\":\"A Case Reaches the Court: A Turning Point in the Dominican Republic - 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