In recent years, citizen participation has gradually obtained more importance in the development and application of public policies, expressed in various instruments created. Nevertheless those mechanisms are still incipient, formal and even discursive; many gaps hamper the exercise of citizen opinion, as well as limited use of evidence from academic and technical spaces is achieved. The parliament debate on Let Her Decide Citizen Initiative (citizen proposal to decriminalize rape-related abortion) is a good example to identify the kind of contributions obtained and their potential to generate favorable or unfavorable positions. This analysis pretends to show such positions, acknowledging the road that lies ahead for sexual and reproductive rights laws, especially those on legal and safe abortion, to have consensual human rights contents.

Problem: Practice of reporting cases of women with induced abortion to the police is relatively common and add legal and police problems to these patients. Objective: To determine perception, opinion, knowledge, attitudes and practices of gynecologists regarding information given to the police on patients with induced abortion. Design: Qualitative participatory, and quantitative observational cross-sectional prospective study. Setting: Three hospitals of the Ministry of Health (MINSA), Lima, Peru. Participants: Gynecologists and obstetricians. Methodology: Thirty-three obstetricians and gynecologists from three hospitals were systematically selected for in depth interview. Other 69 doctors completed a standardized self-administered questionnaire. Participation was voluntary and the study was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee of each of the three hospitals. Main outcome measur...