Citizen Law Initiative on the Interruption of Pregnancy for Health Reasons
The Citizen Law Initiative on the Interruption of Pregnancy for Health Reasons was promoted by the "Las Queremos Vivas" Committee in the framework of Law No. 269 and Article 140 of the Constitution, which stipulate that law initiatives may be submitted by civil society if more than 5000 signatures are collected. With the objective of providing a response to the regulations that endanger the life and health of Nicaraguan women, this group of 14 citizens drafted and presented a bill that guarantees access to the necessary health services to interrupt a pregnancy: When circumstances such as obstetric complications, systemic diseases, congenital abnormalities, or when pregnancy is the result of rape. In addition to promoting the law through the collection of 6164 signatures, the Committee conducts information campaigns on the same.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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