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[h=1]Pregnant 10-year-old rape victim denied abortion in Paraguay[/h]
By Anastasia Moloney
BOGOTA(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Paraguay's decision to deny a pregnant 10-year-old girl an abortion after she was allegedly raped by her stepfather has sparked a national debate over the country's strict abortion law.


Paraguay's health minister recently refused a request from the girl's mother to terminate the pregnancy, but rights groups say the decision could put the girl's health at risk and is "tantamount to torture".
The girl, who cannot be named, is more than five months pregnant.
In Paraguay, abortion is only allowed when the mother's life is in danger. In all other cases the procedure is a crime.


The girl's mother has been imprisoned, charged with breaching her duty of care.
Health Minister Antonio Barrios told Paraguay's ABC newspaper that doctors and a psychologist were providing care to the girl.
"There are no indications that the girl's health is at risk ... we are not, from any point of view, in favor of terminating a pregnancy," Barrios was quoted as saying.
He said health officials only knew about the girl's case when she was already more than 20 weeks pregnant after she was brought to hospital by her mother complaining of stomach pains last month.
Paraguayan health authorities say even if an abortion were allowed, they would not go ahead because it could be risky for the girl at such a late stage in her pregnancy.


Paraguay's influential Catholic Church has weighed into the debate, saying human life is sacred and begins at the moment of conception.
The girl's mother reported last year that her husband was sexually abusing her daughter but the authorities took no action, according to local media reports.
Prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for the 42-year-old stepfather, who is on the run.
The case has put a spotlight on the taboo issue of incest in the conservative South American nation.
Two births a day occur among girls aged 10 to 14 in Paraguay, and many are the result of sexual abuse by relatives and stepfathers, according to the government.
Rights group Amnesty International said making the girl continue with the unwanted pregnancy was a form of torture.


"Forcing this child to carry a baby to term, against her will, could have devastating health consequences," Guadalupe Marengo, Amnesty's Americas deputy director said in a statement.
Complications during pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death for teenage girls.
In Latin America the risk of maternal death is four times higher among teenagers under 16 compared to women in their early twenties, according to the World Health Organization.
The U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Rights is calling on Paraguay's government to ease the country's tough abortion law.


"This is a tragedy and the 10-year-old girl is being put through this because of draconian laws," said Monica Arango, the rights group's director for Latin America and the Caribbean.
"Her reality should spur a serious debate as to the risks to health and life such abortion laws have," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
Latin America has some of the world's strictest abortion laws, with six countries imposing total bans.
 

Awful for the little girl. But isn't 5 months too late anyway? And the Catholic Church seems to dominate the decision.
 

With all the pain and anguish foisted upon this child...they throw her mother in jail just when the girl needs her most.
 
Not much different that this crap.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/TX...bortion-Rights_Fetus_Misogyny-150505-626.html

Last week in Texas, a Republican lawmaker proposed an amendment so outrageous, that even some of his own GOP colleagues were repulsed. Andrea Grimes, with RH Reality, reports:
Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler) put forward an amendment that would make it illegal to terminate a pregnancy after 20 weeks, even if a fetus “has a severe and irreversible abnormality,” effectively forcing families with wanted, but unsustainable pregnancies to carry to term at the behest of the state and against the advice of their doctors or their own wishes.​
What would cause a lawmaker to want the government to inflict more emotional pain onto an already grieving family, in addition to adding a major health risk to the mother? Does he not realize a woman can easily die of sepsis by carrying a nonviable fetus?
Schaefer said that suffering is “part of the human condition, since sin entered the world.”​
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and this isn't Paraquay either... This is Texas..

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Christian Scientists and Jehovah witnesses let their children die rather than take medical intervention especially blood transfusions. Talk about first nation idiots.
 
Louis, the snake is the hero of the fable, IMHO. Definitely the brains of the outfit. I think Eve baby should have hooked up with the serpent, and left stupid to his own devices. Lol:eek:nthego:
 
You that are blaming the Republicans for the problems must really mean the Democrats as many of our Italians and Mexicans are religious Catholic Christians and most likely to not allow abortions.
 
Who passes the laws that severely curtail or outlaw abortions? It's republicans 100%. Until you and others understand the steep danger of electing religious zealots we can look for even more anti-people legislation.
 
AZ Jim said:
Who passes the laws that severely curtail or outlaw abortions? It's republicans 100%. Until you and others understand the steep danger of electing religious zealots we can look for even more anti-people legislation.
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Sorry but thus response is an exaggeration. It is the Catholics that cause these types of restrictions where ever they can. The point I made was that those Catholic thinkers of the world that have come to the us are driving the abortion restrictions, more than any other groups are doing. Some non Catholic groups are also part of the problem. But no proofs of all those Catholics being in the Republican political party. All the problems in this country are not created by the Republican party as some seem to think.

In fact, neither the Republican or Democrat parties are to govern the United States. This is all supposed to done by our Congress and voted from where the Congressmen live, not the overall power of parties like claimed by some. And the strength of both Republican and Democrat parties themselves is only about 30% for each and that leaves us a larger group, the independents of about 40% who can and do vote their own way. It is these votes that can and do sway the direction of our elections.
 
The most restrictive anti-abortion laws are in these states: Oklahoma, Indiana, S. Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Virgina, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Ohio, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Utah, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, N. Dakota, Louisiana, Kansas. 19 total. Only three of those states do not have a REPUBLICAN administration.

Get the picture?
 
AZ Jim said:
The most restrictive anti-abortion laws are in these states: Oklahoma, Indiana, S. Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Virgina, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Ohio, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Utah, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, N. Dakota, Louisiana, Kansas. 19 total. Only three of those states do not have a REPUBLICAN administration.

Get the picture?
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You are selectively picking points to support your claims. Try reading what I have posted and then tell me only Republicans are the ones responsible. There are not enough Republicans or Democrats in this country for either to control how things go. Neither party has enough to do as some claim. Democrats are made up of many Catholics so they also have a bit to say about such items as abortions.
 
Bob are you intentionally trying to avoid being exposed again as absolutely wrong. The charge that Catholics are somehow responsible is ridiculous because they can only vote if an issue is on a ballot, these restrictive laws come from these governors and legislators. Wake up.
 

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