Legalization of Abortion for Rape Victims In Law In Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-634-5_21How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Abortion; Human Rights; Legalization

Abstract

Abortion is a very controversial issue from the past until now, where there are pros and cons to it. Where abortion is associated with the right of the fetus to survive and human rights. There are two reviews, namely abortion due to criminality and abortion for medical reasons as reviewed from Health Law No. 36 of 2009 which is a replacement for Health Law No. 23 of 1992 concerning health.¹Of course, the public’s views vary on this matter, where there are those who are pro and those who are against, but seeing that the public’s view still does not agree if an abortion is carried out by a rape victim because the child being conceived is innocent and does not deserve to be killed, and in this case there is no indication of a medical emergency that endangers the woman’s life. However, from the perspective of human rights for women who are victims of rape, she has the right to decide whether she wants to continue her pregnancy or not because she has a fetus in her womb not of her own will but because of coercion resulting from rape. Regarding the legalization of abortion, according to the public’s view, it should not be done unless there is an indication of a medical emergency, because the fetus in the womb has the right to live and according to them if abortion is legalized it will shift the values and norms in society.

Copyright

© 2024 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Sunny Ummul Firdaus
AU  - Yuniar Sabdaningtyas
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/27
TI  - Legalization of Abortion for Rape Victims In Law In Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference for Democracy and National Resilience (ICDNR 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 176
EP  - 180
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-634-5_21
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-634-5_21
ID  - Firdaus2024
ER  -