Child's pregnancy sets off Chile abortion debate
LUIS ANDRES HENAO July 6, 2013
HealthLatin America
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The case of a pregnant 11-year old girl who was raped in Chile by her mother's partner has set off a national debate about abortion in one of the most socially-conservative countries in Latin America.
Chileans were outraged on Friday after state TV reported that the girl is 14 weeks pregnant and was raped repeatedly over two years. Police in the remote southern city of Puerto Montt arrested her mother's partner, who confessed to abusing the fifth grader. The case was brought to their attention by the pregnant child's maternal grandmother.
Doctors say the girl's life and that of the fetus are at high risk. But in Chile, ending the pregnancy is not an option.
Chile allowed abortions for medical reasons until they were outlawed in 1973 by Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. The current government of conservative President Sebastian Pinera has opposed any loosening of the prohibition.
Many Chileans were venting outrage on social media Friday. Some started an online campaign to demand legalization of abortion in cases of rape or health risks for the mother.
that's because they value life so muchAnd an example of the intolerant right.
Sober 2nd thought.
Here's an example of the tolerant left.
Major Newspapers Turn Down Pro-Life Ad, Baby Image 'Too Controversial' | NewsBusters
how about requiring all people to get their heads examined by ultrasound before donating to a televangelist?
I always wanted to make a bumper sticker - Abort Pro Lifers - and go to a pro life rally and put the sticker on all their cars when they were in the hall. More religious fanatics forcing their morality on others. What is the difference between fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Christians again?
I always wanted to make a bumper sticker - Abort Pro Lifers - and go to a pro life rally and put the sticker on all their cars when they were in the hall. More religious fanatics forcing their morality on others. What is the difference between fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Christians again?
anybody else that disagrees with you that you would prefer to see dead?
I didn't expect you to appreciate the play on words. You take this BS way too seriously. But go ahead and interfere in other people's lives. God wants you to be a d!ckhead.anybody else that disagrees with you that you would prefer to see dead?
I see, placing a bumper sticker now equates to killing someone. Is there anything a pro-choicer can do that doesn't equal murder in your narrow little mind?
And an example of the intolerant right.
I didn't expect you to appreciate the play on words. You take this BS way too seriously. But go ahead and interfere in other people's lives. God wants you to be a d!ckhead.
yeah and that often happens to the babies in our society too... who cares what happens after they are born, just so long as they arrive on planet earthif there ever was a medical reason for an abortion it was for this young girl, but it seems
no one in power cared about her at all.
As far as law and constitution is concerned a human does not exist until it is registered as a person by issuing a birth certificate.Cliffy, when do you believe human life begins?
when does life begin?
It would seem that a technical definition would place it at conception.
Now considering that unless specified in law, we should just go according to science, are you proposing then that we specify in our constitution that human rights apply only as of birth or some other arbitrary time?
Reality is to be hidden away and forgotten. it's the right thing to do.This is no different, really, than CC not allowing pictures of the "product" or "results" of an abortion.
The Human exists Cliffy the Person does not.As far as law and constitution is concerned a human does not exist until it is registered as a person by issuing a birth certificate.
As far as I'm concerned none of it matters. I do not live under the delusion that humans are more important than any other life form, so abortion is not an issue for me. The only issue for me is people interfering in the life of others when it is none of their business.