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2025
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| Online-Zugang: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17750013 |
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- <p>Abstrack<br>The issue of abortion consistently triggers tension between<br>the protection of the fetus's right to life and the mother's<br>right to health and safety, making it a complex legal,<br>ethical, and medical domain. Indonesia, through the New<br>Criminal Code (KUHP) (Law No. 1 of 2023), has taken a<br>humanist step by providing a criminal exception for<br>abortions resulting from sexual violence (maximum 14<br>weeks) and medical emergency indications that threaten<br>the mother's life. Nevertheless, the New KUHP still leaves<br>a gray area, especially for complex medical emergency<br>cases such as a mother experiencing brain death while the<br>fetus is still viable. In this situation, the act of stopping<br>life support can be interpreted as an active act of<br>terminating fetal life, thus potentially being categorized<br>as a criminal act of abortion.<br>This normative legal research, employing a statutory,<br>analytical, and case study approach (such as the Adriana<br>Smith case in Georgia), aims to examine the urgency of<br>relaxing abortion restrictions in complex medical<br>emergency conditions detected after early gestational<br>age. The analysis results indicate that overly rigid<br>regulations without normative clarity for complex<br>emergency conditions risk criminalizing medical personnel<br>and neglecting the human rights and dignity of the<br>medically deceased mother. Harmonization between the<br>KUHP, the Health Law, and medical ethics is needed to<br>provide clear ethicolegal guidelines. The State must strive<br>for a compromise between protecting the potential life of<br>the fetus and the mother's right to dignity, while<br>considering broader medical discretion for complex<br>emergency cases that are not accommodated within the<br>current regulatory time limits.<br>Keywords: Abortion, New KUHP, Medical Emergency, Brain<br>Death, Medical Discretion.</p>