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I AM A PROPHET and I prophesy Title: Women must have access to safe and legal abortion services in cases of unwanted pregnancy as a result of rape, sexual assault or incest. In April 2003, "Josephine" (29) and her friend Miriam were raped at gunpoint by three RCD-Goma soldiers as they walked to their fields near Walungu, in South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. In October 2003, "Josephine" was raped again, this time in her home, by another RCD-Goma soldier who gagged her to prevent her from screaming. In March 2004, pregnant, she told her story to AI: "In the community, they made such fun of me that I had to leave the village and live in the forest. Today, the only thing that I can think about is that I want an abortion. I am hungry; I have no clothes and no soap. I don't have any money to pay for medical care. It would be better if I died with the baby in my womb." In the Darfur region of Sudan, rape is considered a taboo and a shame for the victim. The child who is a result of rape is considered the child of the "enemy", a "Janjawid child". Survivors of rape are likely to be ostracized by their community; married women are likely to be rejected by their husbands. Women and men interviewed by AI said that while they would accept raped women back into the community, the child conceived as a result of rape would not be accepted. One refugee from Kenyu explained: "Some women were raped. We heard about this. But only those who are not married can talk about it. We believe that nobody can become pregnant when raped, because this is unwanted sex and you cannot have a child from unwanted sex. For those who are in the camps in Darfur, those whom they rape day and night, they might become pregnant. Then only Allah can help the child to look like the mother. If an Arab child is born, this cannot be accepted." Rape survivors lack access to medical and psychological care facilities in the refugee camps in Chad and in the IDP settlements in Darfur. Human rights organizations have made recommendations to government, aid and donor agencies regarding access to safe abortion as a component of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services. Although abortion is legal in cases of rape, access to health services, counselling, information and services appears to be practically unavailable to pregnant rape survivors. In a 2005 report ("The Second Assault - Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico"), Human Rights Watch documents the case of "Graciela Hernández" in Guanajuato: "Graciela Hernández" (then age 16) reported being systematically raped by her father in 2002. Hernández became pregnant and declared unequivocally that she wished to terminate her pregnancy. According to representatives from nongovernmental organizations who provided emotional and legal support for "Hernández", the public prosecutor later persuaded the adolescent girl to change her accusation against her father from rape to incest-in order for the father to get a shorter jail sentence, as incest is considered a less serious crime than rape. Since abortion in Guanajuato is legal only after rape and not after incest the abortion was not authorized, and "Hernández" was forced to carry the pregnancy to term. The official record describes her distress: "Then my father took me to a hostel. ...And there my father said to me that I should take all my clothes off ... and my father took all his clothes off ... And my father started to caress my legs and all of my body. And he penetrated me, and it hurt a lot when he penetrated me. I cried and I said to my father that it hurt a lot. ... And I asked him if I was no longer a virgin, and my father said that before he penetrated me, yes, but no longer. ... After that time, it was every week that my father took me to different hotels outside the city of [name withheld]. And we had sex. ... And with regard to my pregnancy, I want to declare that I am certain that the child that I am expecting is my father's ... because I never had [sex] with anyone else. ... And I want to declare that I don't want to have the child that I am expecting, because I will not be able to love it. Because it is my father's, I will not be able to love it. And I also don't know how it will come about, if [the pregnancy] will go wrong. And I also don't want it because I didn't want to be pregnant, and that's why I want you to help me to have an abortion, because as I already said, I don't want to have this child, because it is my father's and I don't want it."
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Same IP as Jethro Tull. Go away asswipe.
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