Professor Ángela Aparisi, international expert witness in a resource brought against the Honduran presidency

Professor Ángela Aparisi, Professor of Philosophy of Law, was appointed International Expert to report on the unconstitutionality resource raised against the Executive agreement 75/2023, issued by the Presidency of the Republic of Honduras, which legalizes the free distribution of the morning after pill in that country.

The Constitution of Honduras "considers prohibited and illegal the internship of any form of interruption of the life of the unborn child, whose life must be respected at all times". In this context, Angela Aparisi showed during the trial that the morning after pill (PDS) can affect the development the embryo and, for this reason, the life of the unborn child would not be respected. Consequently, the agreement issued by the Presidency of the Republic of Honduras is unconstitutional.

With respect to the right to reproductive health, he stated that the PDS is contrary to this right. The reason is that this right protects the health of the mother and the unborn child, whether during pregnancy, at the time of delivery or after delivery. Therefore, the PDS, by being able to produce an early abortion, contradicts and denies this right.

The trial also presented the allegations that the Spanish association of Social Pharmacy (AEFAS), of which Angela Aparisi is Legal Advisor, presented in September 2011, against the decision of the European Medicines Agency to carry out a modification of the technical data sheet of the PDS. Said modification consisted in the elimination -from the aforementioned technical file- of the reference letter to the anti-implantation effect of the PDS. In the trial, it was very useful to be able to show the existing deficiencies in the approval process of the modification of the PDS technical data sheet by the EMA, due to the weight that the pronouncements of the International Organizations have in the Honduran legislation.