Once again, the full chamber of the Constitutional Court stalled the discussion on the future of voluntary termination of pregnancy, this time on behalf of the internal division on the challenge against deputy judge Juan Carlos Henao and the impediment presented by the president of the Court, Cristina Pardo.
To resolve the challenge against Deputy Henao, the Full Chamber of the Constitutional Court raffled off two associate judges to decide on the relevance of the challenges. Ruth Stella Correa and Mauricio Fajardo were drawn. As a result, the case was again suspended.
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On the other hand, the chamber shall decide whether or not to accept Judge Pardo & apos; s impediment. Judge Pardo said that while her statement of conscientious objection made it clear that the 2006 ruling is mandatory, it declares itself barred from full transparency in the current debate on decriminalizing abortion.
Although the legal problem proposed in the claims that are processed in the ” files of reference is not aimed at debating what was resolved by the Constitutional Court in the Decision C-355 (2006), rather than seeking its total decriminalization, some citizens could infer that from the conscientious objection presented by me in 2014 it can be concluded that in the face of what the plaintiffs request on this occasion I would have a negative position, derived from an alleged moral interest,” Pardo said.