El Salvador: Doctors Can Induce Birth to Save Woman, Official Says

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

By KARLA ZABLUDOVSKY
Published: May 30, 2013

A 22-year-old woman who was denied an abortion by El Salvador’s Supreme Court can terminate her pregnancy at the first sign of danger, the health minister, María Isabel Rodríguez, said Thursday. “At this point, the interruption of the pregnancy is no longer an abortion,” Ms. Rodríguez said, “it is an induced birth.” Doctors say the woman, known only as Beatriz, faces serious illness and even death if her pregnancy continues because she has lupus and related complications and is carrying a fetus with a severe birth defect and almost no chance of surviving. Now in her 26th week of pregnancy, she could be induced to have either an abdominal or vaginal birth, Ms. Rodríguez said, “because the important thing is saving Beatriz’s life.”


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/world/americas/el-salvador-doctors-can-induce-birth-to-save-woman-official-says.html

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Earlier thread: El Salvador Supreme Court denies critically ill woman lifesaving abortion

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Hey, it worked for Rick Santorum.

Just don't call it abortion and it's okay.

[RainDog]

2. the fetus has half a skull

there is no way the fetus would have survived.

YET the law of the land FORCED this woman to have to get INTERNATIONAL attention for her plight because pig-headed religious assholes wrote laws to demonstrate their utter disdain for the lives of women.

[Tx4obama]

3. The text below is from an UPDATE over at ThinkProgress

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UPDATE
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the highest human rights courts in the Americas, has ordered El Salvador to provide Beatriz with the care that will save her life. This is the first case on abortion that the court has ever considered. As RH Reality Check reports, since El Salvador is a member state of the Organization of American States and a signatory of the American Convention on Human Rights, its government is obligated to comply with the Inter-American Court’s order — and has until June 7 to provide a report that proves that it’s doing so.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/30/2077371/beatriz-denied-life-saving-abortion/

[RainDog]

4. I'm glad someone is forcing the religious pigs

to treat women as humans with bodily sovereignty.

[freshwest]

5. Thanks for the update, Tx.

[SunSeeker]

6. I wish that Court could have intervened in the case of the woman who ended up dying in Ireland.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311684/Savita-Halappanavar-Dentist-refused-abortion-Irish-hospital-died-medical-misadventure.html

[smirkymonkey]

7. K&R

It's so wrong that it should have ever gotten this far, but at least some decent people are doing something about it finally. I hope she survives.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. El Salvador abortion woman gives birth by C-section; baby dies shortly after

A seriously ill woman who was denied an abortion by the Supreme Court in El Salvador has undergone a premature Caesarean section.

The 22-year-old woman sought to end the pregnancy, because her life was at risk due to lupus and kidney problems.

The foetus developed without a complete brain and skull and died shortly after birth.
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"She's in good hands, being looked after well," she told Reuters news agency, shortly before the woman, known only by the pseudonym Beatriz, underwent the Caesarean. "I expect things to go well over the next few hours."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22763510