Health

Abstract

The chapter deals with four major issues: reproductive autonomy, which is illustrated by the position of judges regarding forced sterilization and the role that religious or moral beliefs of health care providers play in the provision of reproductive services; abortion, which is studied on the basis of the judicial response to the conflict between confidentiality and the duty of doctors to report crimes, and the judges’ responsibility in the profound legal insecurity in which non punishable abortions are carried out in the region; contraception is reviewed by analyzing the legal regulation of emergency contraception; last, the Chapter analyzes the problems of reproductive health in teenagers, area in which the principle of the best interest of the child sometimes conflicts with teenagers’ progressive autonomy and in others it is openly used to suppress such autonomy.