El fallo “Beatriz vs. El Salvador” de la Corte IDH: Una sentencia mixta sobre aborto, derecho a la salud, garantías judiciales y violencia obstétrica

Abstract

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights judgment against El Salvador in the Beatriz Case has more relevance for what it does not say than for what it actually says. The most relevant aspect of the ruling is that it completely ignored the plaintiffs’ demands that the court create a right to general right to abortion or a right on several grounds in El Salvador. However, the ruling did make some progressive interpretations of the right to health and reinforced the new concept of obstetric violence that it had created in the cases of María v. Argentina, Brítez Arce v. Argentina,  and Rodríguez Pacheco v. Venezuela.