Mexican Authorities Block Abortion For 10-Year-Old Rape Victim

[kpete]

Mexican Authorities Block Abortion For 10-Year-Old Rape Victim
Posted by Deeky at Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Authorities in Mexico are restricting access to abortion for a pregnant 10-year-old who was raped by her step-father.


***** The girl's home state on the Yucatan peninsula allows abortion in cases of rape during the first 90 days of the pregnancy. But the 10-year-old girl is at 17½ weeks, nearly a month past that limit.

Advocacy groups are calling for federal officials and the United Nations to investigate the matter, claiming officials did not inform her of her abortion rights.

more:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/04/mexican-authorities-blocks-abortion-for.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/19/mexico.abortion/index.html

[LiberalLoner]

1. This sickens me. What you want to bet, nothing ever happens to the stepfather except

for some high-fiving among his buddies and a request for their own rides on top of the ten-year-old.

Being a woman in this world is a punishable offense. A very punishable offense, in fact.

[YOY]

4. Oh I wouldn't say that.

That part of Mexico does not suffer rapists in any acceptable way. Child rapists even less so I assume.

Ever see "Faces of Death"? The vigilante justice of a rapist in a village not unlike those in the Yucatan is not for the squeemish. Think gasoline, a tree, and some rope. Add screaming and guys throwing on more gasoline. You get the picture.

Now the lack of treatment of the girl? That's disgusting beyond words.

[Stuart G]

2. ????What kind of insanity is this??

[Odin2005]

3. WTF!?! An abortion is a MEDICAL NECESSITY for that poor girl!

:grr:

[colinmom71]

6. It truly is...

My mom works for an OB/GYN firm and about twenty years ago, they had a case I've never forgotten about. A woman brought in her 10 year old daughter because the child was constantly ill and had a distended abdomen. Mom feared her daughter had cancer and the pediatrician didn't take her concerns too seriously.

Turned out the 10 year old was pregnant. Her still undeveloped body was malnourished and severely taxed by the pregnancy (her heart function was already weakened). She'd experienced precocious puberty, having had one menstrual period a few months before the pregnancy began. That was why pregnancy wasn't considered a possibility by the mom since periods can be quite erratic for such young girls... By the time the mom finally decided to bring the girl to her own personal physician, the girl was already into the fifth month of the pregnancy. And it was slowly killing her.

The mom was devastated, and then further so when it turned out that the poor girl had been raped by mom's live-in boyfriend. Oh, and by a teenaged male cousin. Which was the baby's father was uncertain. But what was certain was that the girl needed to be transferred to larger medical facility to treat her. It's a small city and my mom's boss doesn't have experience with pediatric pregnancies that have turned dangerous. The girl was actually rushed to our local hospital as soon as the OB realized how precarious the girl's health actually was.

She was scheduled to be transferred the next day to a teaching hospital most likely for an abortion. My mom's boss honestly felt that the girl's health couldn't hold out for another week, never mind carrying into the third trimester. The transfer was the last my mom heard about that sad case, but when I hear about similar cases I can't help but think of that young girl's struggle... I still wonder about that nameless, faceless child and hope that she's alive and thriving as best she can...

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I hate hearing stories like this. Let's hope there will be enough international pressure to let

her have one, or at least let her come to the USA to be cared for.

[malaise]

5. WTF???

Any bets the stepfather isn't even in jail let alone prison