In Honduras, the morning-after pill is allowed again after a 13-year ban. Left-wing President Xiomara Castro signed the corresponding regulation, she announced on Twitter on Thursday evening (local time).
For the first time since October 2009, the sale and use of the pill to prevent unwanted pregnancy is allowed in the Central American country.
“The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that it is part of women’s reproductive rights and is not an abortion,” the president wrote on Twitter. The decision on International Women’s Day commemorates the historic struggle of women.
Lifting the ban was a campaign promise from the president, who had been in power for a good year. In Catholic Honduras, abortion is completely banned – even in the case of rape, serious malformations of the fetus or if the pregnant woman’s life is in danger. (sda/dpa)
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