Some human being rights advocates in Nicaragua on Monday called on the Supreme Court to declare the country’s abortion ban unconstitutional, Reuters AlertNet reports (Reuters AlertNet, 1/9). Nicaragua’s Asamblea Nacional, the country-wide Legislature, in October 2006 voted 52-0 with nine abstentions and 29 not proximate to pass a bill that bans abortion in all cases, and President Enrique Bolanos in November 2006 signed the measure into law. According to the law, women convicted of having an illegal abortion and those convicted of assisting them meet with obligatory six-year prison sentences. The law eliminates exceptions to the country’s abortion bar that allow the procedure in the case of rape or when three physicians vouch for a woman’s health is at danger. The Center for Constitutional Rights in Nicaragua had said it planned to file appeals to the Nicaraguan human rights council and the country’s Superb Court saying that the bar violates a woman’s reactionary to life (Kaiser Quotidian Women’s Healthfulness Policy Announcement, 11/28/06). Human rights advocates have said the Supreme Court should declare the taboo unconstitutional because it violates “fundamental rights and principles,” according to Reuters AlertNet. The Outstanding Court has not rigid a date or passe frame to controversy a ruling on the case (Reuters AlertNet, 1/9).

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