El Salvador’s “Beatriz” in recovery after cesarean

[ismnotwasm]

Beatriz, a critically ill Salvadorian woman who was denied a therapeutic abortion by the country’s Supreme Court last week, underwent a cesarean on Monday and is currently recovering and in stable condition; her anencephalic fetus, lacking parts of its brain and skull, did not survive.

“She’s in good hands, being looked after well,” Health Minister Maria Isabel Rodríguez told Reuters on Monday. “I expect things to go well over the next few hours.”

After debating Beatriz’s petition for a therapeutic abortion — a request supported by her doctors, the Salvadoran health ministry and international human rights groups — for seven weeks, the court ruled against the procedure, but determined that doctors “could proceed with interventions” if Beatriz’s health continued to deteriorate due to her kidney failure and lupus.

Soon after the ruling, the health ministry ordered Beatriz’s doctors to perform a cesarean, a legal compromise allowing the state to uphold its restriction on all abortion while enabling doctors to terminate Beatriz’s nonviable pregnancy and, ultimately, save her life.

“At this point, the interruption of the pregnancy is no longer an abortion. It is an induced birth,” Rodríguez, said of the cesarean on Thursday.

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/04/el_salvadors_beatriz_in_recovery_after_cesarean/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I'm glad that her pregnancy is over, by whatever means...

And that now she will recover.

I don't get your frustration... What am I missing?

[ismnotwasm]

2. The laws of the country denied her an abortion

Even though the fetus was never viable. She has Lupus as well as kidney disease, so the pregnancy was dangerous, I know you were a nurse CP, part of the nursing care I perform is hemodialysis on women with this very condition. One patient terminated her second pregnancy because it probably would have killed her, and the fetus had no chance.

In situations where I dialysis pregnant women, sometimes it's kind of cool because they'll be a labor and delivery nurse right there monitoring the wanted baby, and you here the soothing heartbeat. The fetus will react to fluid shifts much quicker than the patient will, with decelerations-/we then usually give fluid boluses.

I can't imagine what it was like for this woman. The fetus had no brain. Nohope for life whatsoever The law told her to have it anyway. I guess I'm glad there was a good outcome for this young women.

[msanthrope]

3. She got to have abdominal surgery rather than an abortion. All so a hydrocephalic

fetus could expire in the manner prescribed by non-medical personnel.

[sufrommich]

4. I wonder how many other Salvadorian women have just

accepted their death sentence as decided by the Catholic church and their government? I'm happy that they allowed Beatriz to live, now change the deadly "pro life" laws.

[rebecca_herman]

5. Sigh

I am glad that her pregnancy is over and she will hopefully recover, but it seems so awful that she was put through so much just so that fetus could be born alive and live an unconscious existence for a few hours before dying. The justification seems like mental gymnastics to me too, but at least she will hopefully recover now.

[Starry Messenger]

6. I don't get it.

It's a sin if you abort through the vagina but not through your abdomen?

[ismnotwasm]

7. Apparently

They choose to treat it as a 'birth', let the-never-going-to-be viable fetus grow to an accepted amount of weeks, then removed it. It had no chance at life. This whole episode is horrid. I wish this
Brave woman the best, she fought hard to have a say over her body.

[Starry Messenger]

9. It's twistedly fetishistic.

I'm glad too that she and her doctors found a way to save her life.

[backscatter712]

8. The laws in El Salvador are completely brain-damaged.

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And of course, we have anencephalic members of Congress who want to bring that exact same shit here.

Including the "no exception to save the life of the woman" part.

This makes me want to flay those fetus-fetishists alive and turn their skins into stylish hats. Unfortunately, I can't do that because it's illegal, but I can dream, can't I?