In a survey carried out in 2024, less than 25 percent of respondents in Brazil said that they were in favor of abortion legalization. Almost two thirds of the people interviewed, 61 percent, were against the legalization of this procedure. In Brazil, abortion is punished with a jail sentence, unless it falls under one of the three decriminalized cases: rape, life risk of the pregnant person, and fetus anencephaly.
Public opinion on the legalization of abortion in Brazil as of August 2024
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In Brazil, abortion is decriminalized in three cases: if the pregnancy is a result of rape, if performing an abortion is the only way to save the woman's life, or if the fetus suffers from anencephaly.
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Poder360. (February 3, 2024). Public opinion on the legalization of abortion in Brazil as of August 2024 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121702/brasil-public-opinion-abortion/
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