The consequences of the Artavia Murillo’s sentence in Peru and the conceived child

Authors

  • María Isabel Suárez Gómez Universidad San Martín de Porres

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33539/consensus.2019.v24n2.2324

Keywords:

Conceived child, right to life, therapeutic abortion, emergency oral contraception, sentence

Abstract

The sentence issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IN/A Court HR), in the proceeding followed by Artavia Murillo and others against the State of Costa Rica, has already legal consequences in Peru, corresponding to the right to life of conceived child. Indeed, the aforementioned sentence has been the subject of jurisdictional pronouncements in Peru, which indicate that it must apply, without considering that the criterion taken on the beginning of the right to life of the conceived child, originates the ignorance of the early days of his or her existence and, therefore, contravenes the Constitution. The cases, which are still in discussion in court, refer to controversial issues such as emergency oral contraception and therapeutic abortion, which cannot be considered sexual and reproductive rights, when the life of the most defenseless subjects of the law is threatened: the conceived child.

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Author Biography

María Isabel Suárez Gómez, Universidad San Martín de Porres

Abogada. Grado Académico de Maestro en Gobierno y Gestión Pública. Aspirante al Grado académico de Maestro en Derecho Civil por la Universidad San Martín de Porres. Egresada del Doctorado en Derecho por la misma casa de estudios. Diplomada por la Universidad de Salamanca- España. Presidenta de la Comisión de Estudio sobre Modernización del Estado del Colegio de Abogados de Lima (Años 2018-2019). Presidenta de la Comisión Consultiva de Gestión y Administración Pública - B del Colegio de Abogados de Lima (2015). Presidenta de la Integrante de la Comisión de Ética del Colegio de Abogados de Lima (Años 2006, 2007, 2008 y 2010). Docente del Instituto de Gobierno y Gestión Pública de la Universidad San Martín de
Porres (2017- Actualidad).

Published

2019-12-01

How to Cite

Suárez Gómez, M. I. (2019). The consequences of the Artavia Murillo’s sentence in Peru and the conceived child. Consensus, 24(2), 139–153. https://doi.org/10.33539/consensus.2019.v24n2.2324

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