organisations;27 22) Ana María Idárraga and others;2823) the Women for Women
Foundation;29 24) Philip Alston and Leah Motzkin;30 25) the Sí a la Vida Foundation and other
organisations;31 26) Women’s Link Worldwide;32 27) Kendall Ariana López Peña;33 28) Anis Instituto de Bioética/Cravinas, and the Practical course on human rights and sexual and
reproductive rights – Legal Clinic at the Universidade de Brasília;34 29) the International
Planned Parenthood Federation and other organisations;35 30) the Swedish
Association for Sexuality Education;36 31) members of Congress of the Republic of
The brief was signed by Dorcas Elienai Antezana, Guadalupe Valdez Santos, Edwin Heredia Rojas, Ángelo
Ramirez Palma, Juan Velásquez Salazar, Hadhara Brunstein, Olivia López de la Cruz, Tania López, Amalia Villarreal,
Jane Caldcleugh, Luis Losada Pescador, José de Jesús Magaña, María Amalia Caballero, Segio Burga Álvarez, Carlota
Julia López, Margarita Gnecco, Isis del R. Pérez, Tamoa Vivas, Norma Ivette Laviada, Gustavo Volpe, Ligia Barrascout,
Jose Manuel Menegazzo, Carlos Flores, Gabriela Soberanis, Gabriela Urcuyo de Tefel, Maria Alejandra, Muchart,
Carlos Emmanuel Fernández Ruiz, Carlos Uriel Amado, Santiago Guevara, Selina Maria Palmieri, Juan Ayala, Aida
Lorenzo, Joaquín López, Julio Mendoza, Ligia de Dávila, Geny del Socorro Cáceres, Marcia Lara, Lorea Iturrioz, Enna
Rodríguez, María Eugenia Rivera, Pilar Sánchez García, Norma Laviada, Luis Alberto Montañéz, Carim Ambulo, Maria
Alejandra Acevedo, Rosario Collado, Valeria Gutiérrez, Acacia Treviño, Maite Muñoz, Patricia Cortés, Harim Nabi,
Enrique Hermoso, Clara Vega, Gilberto Rocha, Luis A. Pimentel, Willíngton Zambrano, David Olivera, Debbie Moya,
Luis Alfredo Gil Sánchez, María José Brum, Gerardo Grosso, Hugo Orlando Márquez, Ana Laura Benavides, Karol
Méndez, José Carlos Gil Sánchez, Orlando Quintero Martínez, Blanca Esther Montero Ferrón, Maria Viviana Zaiek,
Edir Hernández Moguel, Laida Álvarez, Jose Pimentel, Angélica E. Romero, Myllene Palacio de Burke, Silka Cecilia
Sánchez de González, Andrea Pérez, Jose Luis Lara, Rose Santiago, Lisbeth Hernández, Carlos Herrera, Miguel Parra,
Mirtha Cocinero, Miguel Ortigoza, Dannia Rios, Julieth Gómez Bernal, María Luisa Torres de Gill, Gabriela Urcuyo de
Tefel, Leandro Flocco, Ana Carolina Rojas, Ricardo Pupo Nogueira Simoes, Arturo Arroyo Roa, Sonia María Crespo,
Marco Antonio Díaz López, Elia Gómez, Silvia Pino, Ligia Briz, María Díaz, Ma. José Molina, María García, María Díaz,
and María del Socorro Vergara. It contained considerations on the scope of the judicial guarantees presumably
violated and its relationship to the rights of the presumed victims.
27
The brief was signed by Juana Inés Acosta López, Ana María Indárraga, Michelle Infante, and Cristóbal Soto.
It contained considerations on the need to reinforce international standards for the protection of pregnant women,
as well as on the different levels of analysis required in this case in relation to the definition as a crime, and the
prosecution and punishment of certain conducts.
28
The brief was signed by Soledad Deza. It contained considerations on professional confidentiality and the
alleged violation of the rights to privacy, confidentiality, health and life.
29
The brief was signed by Philip Alston and Leah Motzkin. It contained considerations on the alleged
discriminatory nature of the prohibition of abortion, based on gender and financial situation.
30
The brief was signed by Julia Regina de Cardenal, Mario Rojas, Mercedes Pérez, Edith Martínez Guzmán,
Gladys Buitrago de Amaya, and Judy Vásquez. It contained considerations on the alleged procedural fraud committed
by the representatives in this case.
31
32
The brief was signed by Marcia Aguiluz and Valeria Pedraza. It contained considerations on the impact of the
criminalization of abortion on this case and on professional confidentiality.
The brief was signed by Kendall Ariana López Peña. It contained considerations on the alleged implementation
of global governance in this case.
33
The brief was signed by Gabriela Rondon, Amanda Nunes and Luciana Alves Rosário It contained
considerations on the criminalization of abortion.
34
The brief was signed by Giselle Carino, Lita Martínez Alvarado, and Consuelo Bowen. It contained
considerations on the relationship between the actions of the health care and judicial services in this case.
35
The brief was signed by Ingela Holmertz and Wilson De los Reyes Aragón. It contained considerations on the
alleged violation of the right to health in the case of Manuela.
36
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