Abortion is broadly criminalized in Brazil under a 1940 Penal Code that has remained largely unchanged for over eight decades. Three narrow legal exceptions exist: pregnancies resulting from rape or sexual violence, pregnancies posing a life-threatening risk to the pregnant person, and pregnancies involving an anencephalic fetus (the last exception established by Supreme Court ruling in 2012). Outside these exceptions, criminal penalties of one to three years' detention apply to women who self...
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