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Lobo27

(753 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 08:21 PM Apr 2013

Abortion in other countries, and the problems women face.

Today, I stopped to see my grandmother she is from Mexico so she tends to watch a lot of spanish TV. The news was on Univision, and they were reporting of story of a girl who is set to die in El Salvador. The girl is pregnant, and she has lupus and because of the disease if she carry's to term she will die. Doctors have told her after countless tests.

What makes things much worse is that in El Salvador abortion is illegal, and if you get caught you face 8 years in prison. Also the doctors revealed the fetus has developed w/o a brain, and other vital things that make human life possible.

So not only does she face death, but also the fact that her child will most likely die at birth. Sad stuff... What makes me upset the most is that my church the Catholic Church has been in all the attacks against her. They have claimed that the reason she wants an abortion is to profit w/ alongside the doctors. Hell even the UN has told the church that they are wrong.

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