American Abortion Activists Want to Impose Their Extremism on Other Countries

Ecuador’s president recently vetoed a bill that ostensibly created a narrow abortion exception for rape but in fact posed a broad and grievous threat to Ecuadorian women’s basic rights and safety.

Repeatedly invoking protection of the victims’ privacy, the bill set up obstacles to the investigation and prosecution of the rapist — one reason for the president’s veto. As the bill now stands, it would likely contribute to an increase in repeat rapes — and Ecuador’s congress has just a few days to decide whether to agree with the president’s veto or to override the veto and make the original bill the law of Ecuador.