Abortion for the rape victim case that happened in the common people is an
example that human’s life cannot avoid the evil. The evil development is caused
by the increasing of society. The purpose of this research is to know the basic
reasons and the law protection for the rape victims doing the abortion. This
research uses normative research that focused on the law in the book. The
collecting data method used in the research is secondary collecting data method,
which can be founded in any literatures and books that connected with the topic.
The result of this research is being known that the general reasons to the women
who are rape victim do the abortion is because of depression psychological. There
is no peace and confidence anymore. Through abortion they want to get their
peace, confidence and good future. They can forget their bad experience before.
Besides the psychological depression from their selves, they do abortion also
because the society depression thinking that their child is an evil result. Now,
there is a law protection for rape victims who do the abortion. In Health of laws
Amendment number 23 in 1992 claim that there is a substantion changes at
chapter 75 in Health Law claiming that for the pregnant woman who is rape
victims can do the abortion.