Director of International Relations at Lola Brasil, a liberal feminist group, Izabela Patriota praises the attitude of former minister Luís Roberto Barroso () of leaving his name registered up to 12 weeks before retiring.
“Former minister Barroso’s vote reignites the debate on the constitutional role of the Federal Supreme Court. The STF has the duty to review criminal rules created under authoritarian regimes and incompatible with individual freedoms guaranteed by the 1988 Constitution, as is the case with the Penal Code still in force, written at the height of the Vargas dictatorship”, he states. He repeated what Rosa Weber did before leaving the court in 2023.
Patriota points out, however, that Barroso voted for decriminalization “like someone turning off the light, when it should illuminate the end of the tunnel where Brazil still finds itself on the issue.”
According to the director of Lola, the role of the Supreme Court is “to ensure that the omission of the Brazilian Executive and Legislative branches does not continue to cost women’s lives — and that the country finally treats reproductive freedom as a constitutional issue, not a criminal one.”
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