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Related: About this forumGirl, 11, gives birth to rapist's child after Argentina refuses abortion
Source: The Guardian
Girl, 11, gives birth to rapist's child after Argentina refuses abortion
Campaigners condemn authorities who ignored girls plea to remove what the old man put inside me
Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Thu 28 Feb 2019 14.28 GMT
An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped was forced to give birth after Argentine authorities refused to allow her the abortion to which she was entitled.
The authorities ignored repeated requests for an abortion from the child, called Lucía to protect her identity, as well as her mother and a number of Argentine womens right activists. After 23 weeks of pregnancy, she had to undergo a caesarean section on Tuesday. The baby is unlikely to survive.
The move has been described as the worst kind of cruelty for this child and has been blamed on an anti-choice strategy in the country to force girls to carry their pregnancies to term.
Lucía told the psychologist at the hospital to which she was admitted after two suicide attempts: I want you to remove what the old man put inside me.
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Campaigners condemn authorities who ignored girls plea to remove what the old man put inside me
Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Thu 28 Feb 2019 14.28 GMT
An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped was forced to give birth after Argentine authorities refused to allow her the abortion to which she was entitled.
The authorities ignored repeated requests for an abortion from the child, called Lucía to protect her identity, as well as her mother and a number of Argentine womens right activists. After 23 weeks of pregnancy, she had to undergo a caesarean section on Tuesday. The baby is unlikely to survive.
The move has been described as the worst kind of cruelty for this child and has been blamed on an anti-choice strategy in the country to force girls to carry their pregnancies to term.
Lucía told the psychologist at the hospital to which she was admitted after two suicide attempts: I want you to remove what the old man put inside me.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/28/girl-11-gives-birth-to-rapists-child-after-argentina-refuses-abortion
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Girl, 11, gives birth to rapist's child after Argentina refuses abortion (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2019
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may the fucking monsters who forced this child victim of RAPE to give birth rot in hell.
niyad
Feb 2019
#1
Second time this year in Argentina - hardly surprising given Macri's ideology.
sandensea
Feb 2019
#4
niyad
(113,776 posts)1. may the fucking monsters who forced this child victim of RAPE to give birth rot in hell.
better yet, may they be required to pay every single cent of those two children's upkeep for the rest of their lives.
sandensea
(21,711 posts)4. Second time this year in Argentina - hardly surprising given Macri's ideology.
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/11522302
Macri and his unofficial health minister, Dr. Abel Albino, whose foundation has received over $8 million in federal funds since 2016 despite deep cuts elsewhere in the health budget.
Argentina's best-known abstinence crusader, Albino rails against sex - but seems to enjoy screwing taxpayers.
spicysista
(1,663 posts)2. Heartbreaking.
Women's rights are human rights.
JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)3. It's a wonder she survived,
but it wouldn't have mattered to them if she died. So long as she died trying to give birth after after she gave birth.