Rwanda amends law to protect women’s right to legal abortion
The Rwandan government has lifted its reservation to a provision of the Maputo Protocol, the only international treaty that explicitly guarantees the right to legal abortion. Under the Protocol, the Rwandan government is now required to “protect the reproductive rights of women by authorizing medical abortion in cases of sexual assault, rape, incest, and where the continued pregnancy endangers the mental and physical health of the mother or the life of the mother or the fetus.”




