Health authorities in Ecuador and Costa Rica have promised to open formal investigations into US-backed ‘crisis pregnancy centres’ following an openDemocracy special report.
Women’s rights activists in both countries described these promises as “important” – but warned that their governments have poor records implementing policies based on human rights, and that this could only get worse during the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of a recent global investigation, undercover reporters posing as vulnerable pregnant women visited anti-abortion ‘crisis pregnancy centres’ in Ecuador and Costa Rica.
