Senator Virginia Velasco socialized in the city of Cobija, Pando, the draft bill of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights Law at the Teacher Training College.
The legislator informed that the purpose of the bill is to establish the legal framework for the adoption of public policies, plans, programs and strategies; the strengthening of institutional capacities and the organization of sexual and reproductive rights services in compliance with the Political Constitution of the State, international human rights instruments, treaties and conventions ratified by the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
The future regulation contemplates the following general guidelines: public planning and management and sexual and reproductive health services with prevention policies and comprehensive multidisciplinary care.
It also regulates public policies on sexual rights and reproductive rights with respect to the central level of the State and the Autonomous Territorial Entities – ETA’s, within the framework of their competencies.
It contemplates public policies on education and comprehensive health for sexuality and reproduction, through the central level of the State and the guarantee in the design and implementation of such policies for the education and comprehensive health of the entire population in a broad, secular and inclusive manner.
Regulates the free, prior and informed consent in Sexual Health and Reproductive Health services, on any person who has the right to decide autonomously to undergo examinations, expert opinions, interviews and any type of therapeutic or medical procedure, or any other procedure concerning their Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights;
Regulates access to modern contraceptive methods at all levels through public health services and short-term social security, will provide and guarantee free and timely access to modern, effective and affordable contraceptive methods, including emergency oral contraception and definitive contraceptive methods, prior information, guidance and counseling.
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It also regulates the procedures for the care of victims of sexual violence as an act of priority care, without the demand of any type of requirement; care in the services of detection test for STIs, hepatitis B, preventive treatment of antiretroviral HIV / AIDS, emergency contraception, *voluntary interruption of pregnancy*, in the National Health System, within the framework of the recommendations of the WHO.
“In order to have access to the termination of pregnancy, the only requirement, in all cases, will be the signature of the informed consent by the pregnant woman, without the health facility being able to demand any other procedure, requirement, formality or prior procedure of any nature,” the bill states.
In cases of legal termination of pregnancy, the following must also be complied with: In cases of risk to the life and health of the pregnant person or in cases of lethal congenital malformations incompatible with life, a medical report shall be required.
In case of rape, statutory rape or incest, the current protocol of care must be followed.
In the case of girls, the fact must be reported to the authorities because the pregnancy is considered to be the result of rape; in the case of adolescents who state that they have been victims of sexual violence, the person in charge of the health facility must report the fact to the competent authorities.
Source: Now the People