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Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies Votes to Suspend Conanda Abortion Guidance for Minors

The measure now goes to the Senate following warnings that it would leave raped minors without a national access protocol.

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A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou urgência do PDL que susta efeitos de norma do Conanda que permite aborto em crianças sem presença dos pais.
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A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou urgência do PDL que susta efeitos de norma do Conanda que permite aborto em crianças sem presença dos pais.

Overview

  • Lawmakers approved PDL 3/2025 by 317 to 111 to suspend Conanda’s Resolution 258/2024 on care for children and adolescents who are victims of sexual violence.
  • The suspended resolution allowed legal abortion in the cases permitted by law without a police report, court authorization or guardian consent when those requirements impeded timely care, and it did not impose a gestational time limit.
  • The decree was authored by Deputy Chris Tonietto, reported by Luiz Gastão, and advanced under an urgency regime with support from Catholic and Evangelical parliamentary fronts and center-right parties.
  • The Ministry of Women opposed the vote, citing 232,000 births to girls aged up to 14 from 2013–2023 and only 154 girls accessing legal abortion in 2023, and said the suspension creates a care “vacuum.”
  • On November 7, NGOs including Conectas, Anis and Católicas pelo Direito de Decidir filed a complaint to UN mechanisms urging senators to reject the PDL.