Choice? Except for Cuba, not in Latin America

[Katzenjammer]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Jazmina Bojorge arrived at Managua's Fernando Vélez Paiz Hospital on a Tuesday evening, nearly five months pregnant and racked with fever and abdominal pain. By the following Thursday morning, both the pretty 18-year-old and the female fetus in her womb were dead.

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But a week before her death on Nov. 2, Nicaragua's legislature had voted to ban all abortions, eliminating long-standing exceptions for rape, malformation of the fetus and risk to the life or health of the mother. Now, outraged opponents of the legislation have declared Bojorge its first victim.

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With the exception of Cuba, every nation in this predominantly Catholic region either totally prohibits abortion or limits it to extreme circumstances. And while the global trend over the past decade has been to liberalize abortion laws, efforts to do so in Latin America have been met by an equally determined campaign to strengthen them further.

So far, the anti-abortion camp's greatest triumph has been in El Salvador, where in 1998, at the public urging of San Salvador's Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle, lawmakers removed all exceptions to the nation's ban on abortion and increased penalties to up to 50 years' imprisonment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701577.html?referrer=email

[Greyhound]

1. Hmm, the most impoverished, the most repressed, and the most

authoritarian countries, are also the largest strongholds of Catholicism, South America and Africa. I'm sure it is just a coincidence.:eyes:

[Katzenjammer]

2. Yes, isn't that amazing. You'd almost think there was a connection.

But that would be being anti-Catholic.

[KingFlorez]

4. These places let the church rule

The church having such control is especially damaging in underdeveloped countries.

[RB TexLa]

3. It's illegal in Mexico, but there are more than 1 million performed a year

there. The law is just ignored.

[RethugAssKicker]

5. Although Latin America is overcoming its RW bully

It is still largely Catholic and as such, its laws are very anti abortion.

[WernhamHogg]

6. This should be read by all right wingers

This article should be read by all right wingers. I'm sure this is a fantasy for many of them. It sounds like the perfect place for them to move to!