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Title: Critically ill woman faces jail time if she goes forward with lifesaving abortion
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salon.com
URL Source: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/cri ... ard_with_life_saving_abortion/
Published: Apr 18, 2013
Author: Katie Mcdonough
Post Date: 2013-04-18 16:35:19 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 4841
Comments: 11
In addition to her health complications, doctors have confirmed that the fetus has anencephaly and is nonviable According to a report from Amnesty International, a seriously ill and pregnant El Salvadorian woman may face jail time if she goes forward with a lifesaving and medically recommended abortion. Abortion is illegal under all circumstances in El Salvador. The 22-year-old mother of one, identified only as Beatriz, is four-and-a-half months pregnant, but her doctors have confirmed that the fetus has anencephaly (developing without a brain and certain parts of the skull) and that the pregnancy is nonviable. In addition to the fetal diagnosis, Beatriz is experiencing critical health complications related to her lupus and kidney disease. The hospital treating Beatriz requested legal permission to perform the abortion more than a month ago, but authorities have still not agreed to let them proceed. Now, if government policy and religious ideology interfering with a woman’s right to access abortion care or a doctor’s ability to exercise medical judgment and save a woman’s life sounds familiar, it should. As reported by Amnesty: The country’s Penal Code states that anyone seeking or carrying out an abortion could be given a long prison sentence. This means both doctors and Beatriz would be at risk of imprisonment if a termination is carried out. “Beatriz’s situation is desperate and must not wait any longer. Her very chances of survival depend on a decision from the authorities,” Esther Major, Amnesty International’s researcher on Central America, said in a statement. Beatriz has taken her request for medical services to El Salvador’s Supreme Court, where it is currently being considered. “We hope that the Supreme Court treats this case with the urgency it merits, given that Beatriz’s life and health are at risk. She is suffering cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in being denied the medical intervention she so urgently needs,” Major said.
Doctor say Beatriz could die if she continues with the pregnancy, but have not yet treated her because they fear that if they end the pregnancy they might be prosecuted under the country’s total ban on abortion…
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
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Mass murder justification spear chucking ... bongo drum banging head hunters --- gun - bible grabbing crazies Liberals - freaks - minorities - obomba bots - SLAVES ... mouthing piety - shouting mantras ---- mau mau - Zulus - neocom - nazis ! To: Hostage The civilized world believes in democracy ... the rule of law --- Except the USA The ruling coalition doesn’t believe in the law except as a cudgel. The law is what ever the tyrants of the Democrat party say it is. The law is only enforced against enemies. Actually, the law enforcers are the American enemies 5 posted on Friday, April 19, 2013 7:02:46 AM by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009824/posts#5
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
The cross dresser depressed pill junky is coming out and admitting he is not against abortion. That is why depressed pill boy posted it.
goiter liberals ... hormone poisoning - deficiency --- brains are gutted out from drugs - liberalism !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
You are nothing but supporter of the wanton killing of women. So now women have to die from tubal pregnancies to justify your blood lust and misogyny? You Do know that your hero Ron Paul either performed ectopic pregnancy terminations or he was lying about being a true obstetrician.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
aThe fetus has no brain function and a deformed skull. It won't live when and if it is born. But the woman is a living intelligent being and should be saved. This is a an obvious choice for life by aborting the deformed, brainless fetus; it saves a life. Thanks for confirming that you are not pro-life, you are pro-control off women's lives.
You support mass murderer Obama. You are a murderer at heart. You hate children. If I had to choose to save you or your baby inside. I'd cut you open to save the kid instead of you. Then raise it right so it doesn't turn out like you.
Mike you are a confirmed liar. You worship the father of lies Satan. Nothing I mean nothing you say is to be believed. Nothing. Liar.
So you would be a vigilante murderer operating outside the law to satisfy your blood lust. Somehow this does not surprise me.
I guess Stone thinks he can save an embryo that is implanted in the wrong place. He thinks he's God.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
If I had to choose to save you or your baby inside. I'd cut you open to save the kid instead of you. Then raise it right so it doesn't turn out like you. Your pathological psychosis has nothing to do with saving a kid.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Stone is just all the way around one fucked up piece of shit.
#2. To: BorisY (#1)
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
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cross dresser depressed pill junky
#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)
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The cross dresser depressed pill junky is coming out and admitting he is not against abortion. That is why depressed pill boy posted it.
#5. To: A K A Stone (#2)
#6. To: mininggold (#4)
You are nothing but supporter of the wanton killing of women.
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#5)
#8. To: A K A Stone (#6)
"I'd cut you open to save the kid instead of you."
#9. To: Ferret Mike (#8)
So you would be a vigilante murderer operating outside the law to satisfy your blood lust. Somehow this does not surprise me.
#10. To: A K A Stone (#6)
You support mass murderer Obama. You are a murderer at heart. You hate children.
#11. To: mininggold (#9)
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