Rosa Weber plans start of abortion trial for next Friday
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The president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Minister Rosa Weber, scheduled the start of the trial of the action that discusses the decriminalization of abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy for next Friday (22).
The trial will be held in the virtual plenary, when the ministers simply cast their votes in the Court system without discussion or transmission on TV Justiça.
Voting will close on September 29, one day after Weber is expected to announce his retirement from the bench.
The action was filed by the Socialism and Freedom Party (Psol). Interlocutors of the president of the Court have told the press that Weber would not like to leave the STF without voting on abortion.
The president of the Supreme Court is also the rapporteur for the action and has a history of positions in favor of abortion.
Still in 2018, the minister called public hearings to debate the decriminalization of abortion and stated that the issue needed ‘maturing’.
Two years earlier, in 2016, when judging a specific case in the First Panel of the STF, Weber said he did not consider it a crime if an abortion was performed in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Currently, Brazilian legislation allows intrauterine murder in three situations: risk of death for the mother, sexual violence and when the baby has anencephaly.
Among the criticisms of the trial, politicians and pro-life activists emphasize that the issue should be debated in Congress and not decided by the Supreme Court, despite public opinion, which is mostly against intrauterine murder.
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