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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEl Salvador law encodes religious human sacrifice
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/el-salvador-denies-a-womans-right-to-life/The woman in question, who is being called Beatriz by the press, is suffering from lupus and kidney disease that will likely kill her if she gives birth, and her fetus doesnt have a brain, meaning that it will not survive if brought to term. If/when she passes, she wil leave behind a young son and a husband.
When I say human sacrifice, I am not exaggerating. The Catholic Church has responded to the surge of feminist energy around the world in no small part by doubling down on their denunciations of contraception and abortion, and making it clear that women should put being subservient baby-makers over every other consideration, even their own basic survival. In fact, theres a lot of romanticizing of women who die in childbirth, to the point where its treated like its the most awesome thing you can do as a woman. At least one woman I know of has been sainted for dying rather than choosing abortion, and anti-choicers frequently spread slobberingly worshipful propaganda exalting death in childbirth as the best thing that ever happened. (Heres a typical example.) The misogynist longing for female death isnt even really subtextual at this point, but right there on the surface. And if you wont choose death, well, theyll choose it for you.
All of this is why its really just so, so disingenuous for a bunch of death eaters like the hardcore Catholics to claim that pro-choicers are pushing a culture of death. Nothing is more pro-life than the belief that womens lives matter, independent of their fertility.
Barbaric religious beliefs have no place in modern societies.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is one of the most sickening things I have heard of in a long time. It is absolutely barbaric. I am completely disgusted!
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)They are among us.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)via Texas4Obama
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 Courts order and has until June 7 to provide a report that proves that its doing so.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/30/2077371/beatriz-denied-life-saving-abortion/
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)religion is. This death is completely preventable. FUCK THE POPE! (Yeah, I know, this is headed for the dustbin but I don't give a shit.)