President Rodrigo Chaves has repealed Costa Rica’s therapeutic abortion protocol, a move that fulfills a long-standing promise and tightens rules around the procedure. The original protocol, established in 2019 under former President Carlos Alvarado, aimed to clarify when doctors could perform abortions to save a woman’s life or health without facing criminal charges. Chaves signed […] The post Costa Rica President Narrows Legal Abortion to Life-Saving Cases appeared first on The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate .