| dc.description.abstract | From the advent of new technologies of prenatal diagnosis, it started to be possible the intrauterine identification of serious foetus anomalies. However, the improvement of Medicine still does not allow, most of the times, the availability of treatment for these diseases. Consequently, the abortion acquires another sense, because it leads to the only available option to reduce the suffering of the pregnants or couples, who has to face the impossibility of the foetus survival after the birth and do not consider themselves able to bear and take pregnancy to the term. This fact also reflects in the legal area, mainly considering the legal actions that demand authorization for abortion accomplishment. Because there is no legal regulation for this question, the answer has been given by the Court. The main objective of the present work is to verify what are the pronounced legal speeches regarding the subject, as well as to comprehend the meanings that are behind these speeches, giving special enfasis to the pregna | |
