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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 07:41 PM Dec 2013

Argentina court rules 14-year-old rape victim can have abortion

Source: Agence France-Presse

Argentina court rules 14-year-old rape victim can have abortion
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, December 27, 2013 16:13 EST

A court in Argentina ruled Friday that a 14-year old rape victim could have an abortion, overturning a lower court decision barring the girl from seeking the procedure which had triggered outrage.

The teenage girl discovered early last month that she was pregnant after being raped by her mother’s partner.
The teen and her mother, who live in the city of Salta, one of the most conservative in Argentina, sought an abortion at an area hospital.

But a family court judge in a December 17 ruling denied her petition to terminate her pregnancy, instead ordering the girl to give birth and surrender the baby for adoption.

The lower court decision had provoked an outcry by women’s groups which maintained that the judge had exceeded his authority.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/27/argentina-court-rules-14-year-old-rape-victim-can-have-abortion/

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Argentina court rules 14-year-old rape victim can have abortion (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2013 OP
Argentina seems like an interesting place. iandhr Dec 2013 #1
I wish that were the case, but I have seen in the U.S. that it is not... CTyankee Dec 2013 #4
Progressive kind of a country Omaha Steve Dec 2013 #2
But but but...isn't her pregnancy A GIFT FROM GOD? alp227 Dec 2013 #3
It's good to see some movement on this in a Catholic country. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2013 #5
Hmmm, are leftist political formations in Latin America good on abortion rights? Comrade Grumpy Dec 2013 #6

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
1. Argentina seems like an interesting place.
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 07:52 PM
Dec 2013

"legal same-sex marriage and transgender rights recognition — abortion is still a social taboo."

Usually gay bashers and anti-choice people go together.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
4. I wish that were the case, but I have seen in the U.S. that it is not...
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 09:59 PM
Dec 2013

anti-abortion laws abound while legal same sex and transgender rights go forward...I can't understand that

alp227

(32,025 posts)
3. But but but...isn't her pregnancy A GIFT FROM GOD?
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 08:50 PM
Dec 2013

And if she was really raped her reproductive organs would've shut down!

It sucks we've got mainstream right wingers like Akin and Santorum who believe that shit.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
5. It's good to see some movement on this in a Catholic country.
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 10:18 PM
Dec 2013

I just saw a report about abortion in El Salvador. They send women to jail for murder for it there.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
6. Hmmm, are leftist political formations in Latin America good on abortion rights?
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 10:21 PM
Dec 2013

The Sandinistas in Nicaragua?

The FMLN in El Salvador?

Anybody?

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