Legal abortion: measures make access to the procedure increasingly difficult in Brazil

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Supreme Federal Court suspends CFM resolution that renders interruption of pregnancies after 22 weeks impossible; but reference service is closed and specialists say it is 'almost impossible' to perform the procedure. The STF minister, Alexandre de Moraes, provisionally suspended the CFM resolution that prohibits the use of fetal heartbeat to interrupt pregnancies above 22 weeks resulting from rape. The decision is another chapter in the battle …