Brazilian women resort to desperate measures after abortion crackdown

[cbayer]

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/dec/11/brazil-abortion-law-women-desperate-measures

In an increasingly conservative climate, Brazilian women are risking unsafe procedures and prosecution in order to terminate pregnancies


Demonstrators demanding new laws on abortion stage a mock funeral in São Paulo. Deaths related to clandestine abortions have sparked debate in Brazil. Photograph: Rahel Patrasso/Alamy

Miriam Wells in Rio de Janeiro
Thursday 11 December 2014 13.31 GMT

It has been a bad few months for Ana Teresa Derraik, clinical director of Rio de Janeiro state’s leading public hospital for obstetric health.

In September, three women were admitted to intensive care after having corrosive chemicals injected into their uteruses. One died, one survived. The third, a 25-year-old mother of one, lost both her feet following surgery that just managed to keep her alive.

Last month, a 26-year-old patient died having undergone a similar procedure – an exceptionally dangerous attempt at clandestine abortion.

“It’s so sad,” said Derraik, who suspects the same substance was used on or by all four women. “But any investigation into what took place could result in these women being prosecuted.”

more at link

[trotsky]

1. Fascinating:

Brazil and its Congress have always been influenced by the Catholic church, but in the past two decades there has been a dramatic rise in evangelical Christian churches and the number of politicians who share their beliefs. Almost a quarter of Brazilians now identify themselves as evangelical, up from 5% in 1970.

I'm sure that's completely coincidental.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Clearly religion has nothing to do with this.

Must be those pesky conservatives. Not the religious ones though. Never them.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Since we're taking issue with the content of headlines this week, why not say "catholic abortion cra

ckdown"?

Because that would be true.

In an increasingly catholic conservative climate, Brazilian women are risking unsafe procedures and prosecution in order to terminate pregnancies

Fixed that for you.

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4. I wonder if any newspaper would ever hire you.

Because that is not true.

Just read trotsky's link. The religious picture is decreasingly Catholic and increasingly Evangelistic.

Adding words, inaccurately, is as dishonest as it is incompetent.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Every time I think I've accidentally left you an angle, 'you dissapoint me, Ramsay'.

Brazil:

"Roman Catholicism (64.6%)
Protestantism (22.2%)
Non religious (8%)
Other religions (5.2%)"


Yeah, I'm sure that 22% minority of the population is really the root cause here.

Oh my gosh ALMOST A QUARTER are clearly running roughshod over the catholic majority that already saw fit to make abortion illegal anyway, those poor, misunderstood, women hating assholes.

Deflect away, sir. I eagerly await your contortions this time.

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6. The only deflection is your added word.

The only contortion is your attempt to get out from under it.

To return to the actual article, as opposed to your twisted headline, it is commenting on the increase in evangelism.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Which is building upon unacceptable, regressive, right wing laws already put in place by the catholi

cs.

Take away that 62% of fellow/prior travelers, and let me know what's left.

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8. Your edit remains as dishonest as it was when you typed it.

Authentic statements usually don't need explanations.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. I only had to explain it to *you*

[rug]

10. No one else paid *you* attention.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Assumes facts not in evidence.

[rug]

12. Well, I'm looking around . . . .

[AtheistCrusader]

13. We'll see who else shows up. Meanwhile, how about you explain to the 'group' what

a 22% minority can do to 'crack down' on abortion, in a country where some 60+% already made it illegal.

If the catholics are sitting on their hands, already satisfied with how much damage they've done, how does 22% make it further regressive?

Or are they all working together to attack women?

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14. If you read the article instead of altering a title, you wouldn't have to ask.

But experts say a major crackdown in recent years on underground clinics across Brazil, accompanied by an increasingly conservative National Congress, has made a highly risky situation even more dangerous. Women appear to be resorting to ever more desperate measures.

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Brazil and its Congress have always been influenced by the Catholic church, but in the past two decades there has been a dramatic rise in evangelical Christian churches and the number of politicians who share their beliefs. Almost a quarter of Brazilians now identify themselves as evangelical, up from 5% in 1970.

Evangelical candidates gained 50% more seats in the 2010 congressional elections and 26% in October’s, now holding 83 out of 574 seats across both houses (14%).

“Extreme groups have got more organised, forming anti-abortion fronts and trying to reverse progress already made,” says Galli. “And now we have the most conservative congress since the dictatorship. The situation is very bleak.”

Time to recalbrate your biases.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. That's funny, that's what I would have quoted in response to your blithe pretense of non-understandi

g.

What you quoted SPECIFIES precisely my point (less than 1/4).

These 'evangelicals' have ZERO POWER without politically aligning with shit that is fully approved by that 60+% majority that already made abortion illegal. The evangelicals may be doubling down, but the catholics are supporting them, and that's where the total numbers to accomplish the destruction they intend comes from.

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16. It's interesting to observe a reaction to evidence that does not conform to one's beliefs.

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Yes, it is.