Zika virus outbreak sparks abortion debate in Brazil
- 9 years ago
A debate is raging in Brazil over the country’s restrictive abortion laws against the background of an outbreak of the Zika virus.
A rise in the number of babies being born with undersized brains is being linked to it.
Pro-abortion groups are petitioning the Supreme Court to allow legal terminations for infected pregnant women.
Lawyer and spokesperson for the Latin American women’s rights group CLADEM, Beatriz Galli said infected women should have the right to choose:
“We do not have a diagnostic tool which is 100 percent secure… As it is a very uncertain future, women cannot be forced to carry forward a pregnancy in this crisis, this epidemic, or even pandemic as the“World Health Organisation“http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11585&Itemid=41688&lang=en declared regarding the Zika virus.”
Abortion in Brazil is illegal unless the woman is raped or her life is threatened. Religious groups and their representatives such as Lenise Garcia who is
A rise in the number of babies being born with undersized brains is being linked to it.
Pro-abortion groups are petitioning the Supreme Court to allow legal terminations for infected pregnant women.
Lawyer and spokesperson for the Latin American women’s rights group CLADEM, Beatriz Galli said infected women should have the right to choose:
“We do not have a diagnostic tool which is 100 percent secure… As it is a very uncertain future, women cannot be forced to carry forward a pregnancy in this crisis, this epidemic, or even pandemic as the“World Health Organisation“http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11585&Itemid=41688&lang=en declared regarding the Zika virus.”
Abortion in Brazil is illegal unless the woman is raped or her life is threatened. Religious groups and their representatives such as Lenise Garcia who is