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Abortion in Uruguay is legal on request before twelve weeks of gestation, after a five-day "reflection" period.〔http://www.montevideo.com.uy/notnoticias_181894_1.html〕 Prior to legalization, the punishment for having an abortion was 3 to 12 months in prison, while performing an abortion was punishable by 6 to 24 months in prison.〔http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/74136.php〕 A judge could mitigate the pregnant woman's sentence in certain circumstances. These included economic hardship, risk for the woman's life, rape, or family honor.〔http://www.leyaborto.org/eng/ley_actual/ley_actual.php〕 On November 11, 2008, the Senate of Uruguay voted 17 to 13 to support a bill which de-criminalized abortion in their country.〔http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/11/20081111203444216166.html〕 This bill was vetoed by President Tabaré Vázquez on November 14 of the same year.〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7728597.stm〕 In December 2011, the Uruguayan Senate voted 17 to 14 to support a bill which would de-criminalize abortion in their country. The bill would allow abortion after 12 weeks (fetal age 10 weeks) in cases of rape or incest.〔http://www.tt.com/csp/cms/sites/tt/Nachrichten/4055631-2/uruguays-senat-billigte-abtreibung-in-ersten-zw%C3%B6lf-wochen.csp〕 President Jose Mujica has said he would sign the bill if it passed the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16343687〕 The Chamber of Deputies voted and passed the bill. ==Abortion methods and results== Before abortion was legalized, Uruguay's women suffered 20,000 hospitalizations because of unsafe abortion every year, until a harm reduction strategy was adopted to enable women to initiate medical abortion at home. Medical abortion is non-surgical, so it does not introduce instruments into the womb; danger of infection from septic abortion is therefore much lower. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abortion in Uruguay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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