Abortion Reform in Colombia: From Total Prohibition to Decriminalization up to Week Twenty-Four

Ana Cristina González-Vélez is a medical doctor and a PhD in bioethics and public health, and a renowned international expert and leader in the field of health and sexual and reproductive rights, the right to health, and gender equality. She has held several positions across the spectrum of her profession: as a service provider, policy formulator, researcher, international advisor, activist, and teacher on “health law” at the School of Medicine in the Universidad de los Andes. She has served as an advisor and consultant with different UN agencies like PAHO, WHO, UNFPA-LACRO and ECLAC. Former national public health director in Colombia, co-founder of La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres and pioneer of Causa Justa movement that led Colombia to the most liberal abortion law in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has published many books and articles on abortion.

Isabel C. Jaramillo-Sierra is a professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and General Coordinator of Red Alas. She holds an SJD from Harvard Law School and has served as Ad Hoc judge in the Colombian Constitutional Court and State Council. She is the co-author of Mujeres, cortes y medios (with Tatiana Alfonso) and La Batalla por el derecho al aborto (with Ana C. González), on abortion mobilization in Colombia.