The numbers in the abortions registered in the Dominican Republic have decreased over the past three years. But they are still in the thousands annually. Every year since 2019, more than 10,000 women suffer a abortionwhether due to natural causes or complications in the health of the mother, according to data from the Repository of Information and Statistics of Health Services (Riess) from which a record of more than 32 abortions newspapers over the past five years.
The Dominican Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology warned last July that approximately “25,000 annual hospitalizations were reported due to complications derived from abortions “insecure.”
According to statistics from (Riess) and the Ministry of Public healthsince 2019, in the Dominican Republic At least 67,455 have been registered abortionswith 2019 being the year in which there were the most, with 15,402 practices.
2023 was the year with the fewest recorded so far, with at least 10,391 power outages. pregnancy.
More in women between 20 and 24 years old
In 2024, the figures of the Ministry of Public health total 6,525 abortions until August.
By age range, the women The majority of cases are reported in the 20-24 age group. One important fact is that girls under 15 years of age have registered 10 cases from January to March, while from April to June the number rose exponentially to 51, and between July and August the number reached 18. This means that, so far this year, there are two cases per week, on average.
The data correspond to the Ministry of Health and to Riess on the number of abortions recorded by the hospital centersnot including clandestine ones.
Difference on the decriminalization of the abortion
The debate on the issue continues in the country decriminalization of the abortion when primen three causes: when the woman’s life is at risk, when the pregnancy is not viable, or in cases of rape or incest. Since there is no consensus, this issue is one of those that is holding up the approval of a new Penal Code in the National Congress.
Profamilia is one of the organizations which has requested on several occasions that the national authorities decriminalize the abortion in three causesin order to safeguard the lives of women.
“That establishes from a medical point of view the importance of the decriminalization of the abortion for reasons and to appropriately inform the population about the nature of a fetal malformation incompatible with life,” the institution states.
Instead, organizations Religious groups have shown their opposition to decriminalizing abortion in the country.
