This story is getting international coverage.
Pregnant teen dies after abortion ban delays her chemo treatment for leukemia - CNN.com
Pregnant teen dies after abortion ban delays her chemo treatment for leukemia - CNN.com
The constitution needs to be changed.Abortion should be allowed in life threatening situations.
I hope that with this international coverage,something will be done about it.
My heart goes out to the mother.
This story is getting international coverage.
Pregnant teen dies after abortion ban delays her chemo treatment for leukemia - CNN.com
13 weeks? she could have done it herself, like thousands of other dominican women: a handful of cytotec and it's over.
but yeah, what a law. the one it protected died anyways taking far more valuable life with it. sad.
The ban apparently prevented this one until it was too late!
I can't tell you how many hundreds of hours i've spent arguing this issue with a Canadian pastor/minister frome Cabarete, but who preaches in Sosua on sundays. Despite countless hours, and countless arguments of trying to talk some reason into this pastor, the argument is lost, in vain, and a complete waste of precious energy, time, and oxygen.
I've tried telling this pastor numerous times, in vain, that my cousin in Bonao is a well known gynecologist, he's one of the most respected doctor's in Bonao and Cibao area. He sees not dozens, but hundreds of cases a year of women trying to self-induce abortions and then ending up with a torn uterus's, life-threatening infections, shock induced by heavy blood loss, etc. Several times a week women come into his office, completely desperate, and seeking advice on how to terminate an unwanted preganancy--sometimes by a relative, but he cannot do anything about it because his hands are tied by the law.
Many women end up in the emergency room because of botched abortions; but a lot of women will take home-made concotions that their neighbor or friend has reccomended or told her about, only to end up with a severe infection or death. People in the DR, and other poor countries, are extrememly vulnerable to heresay and voodoo medicine and techniques that have been reccomended by someone who knows someone who heard it from someone else. They'll try anything, only to end up in the emergency room--where my cousin or other gynecologists wil be callled in the middle of the night to come and try and save them. it's a screwed up, terrible, barbaric, medievil situation that has been going on far, far too long, and it will continue to go on for the for seeable future with no way of stopping it. Nothing will change in the DR becuase the catholic church has way, way too much power and influence over the legislature.
Frank
My uncle and aunt were doctors in Santo Domingo for 40 years and they had to deal with similar botched abortion deaths and issues, their kids are now doctors and have to deal with botched abortion issues and death, and the next generation of doctors will have the misfortune to have to deal with it as well. when will the insanity stop?
Not in any of our life times.
Then please explain to me why the victim of the unwanted pregnancy has to be the unborn child. (besides the case of this topic, I don't know the details, so I won't comment).
Friends of us in Holland had to make a decision when the lady of the couple got pregnant but according to a condition she has the chance she would die during giving birth was high. She decided to go on with the pregnancy (and everything went well).
Basically I would say that when the life of a mother is in danger it should be up to the mother to decide what to do, not to any church or government.
In ALL other cases abortion is murder.
WOW that brush of yours has a very broad stroke. I disagree. Abortion is not murder in every occasion beside that endangering the mother's life. Do you consider the bastard child product of a violent or vicious rape a wanted pregnancy? Do you think an abortion under these conditions murder? Is abortion murder when incest rape occurs?In ALL other cases abortion is murder.
On this abortion thing, I would like to know how many women's opinions were asked prior to passing this law? I don't agree with abortion either, but it's not my choice to make. It's the mother's choice. Many of us would like to inject religion, church and any other reasons we can come up with. But no one's hands are clean in this because we are all sinners if you follow the religious route. On the religious route, we all have to answer to the Big Man for our sins that's one of my reasons for agreeing that it is the mother's choice and not mine nor the government's.
WOW that brush of yours has a very broad stroke. I disagree. Abortion is not murder in every occasion beside that endangering the mother's life. Do you consider the bastard child product of a violent or vicious rape a wanted pregnancy? Do you think an abortion under these conditions murder? Is abortion murder when incest rape occurs?
Abortion isn't the fix all for unwanted pregnancies, birth control and proper anti-contraceptive education should take care of most unwanted pregnancies. Abortion does, however, have a place in society and should not be stigmatized and criminalized to the point of hindering, or in some cases exterminating, those citizens society is seeking to protect.
The issue at hand here is the two most basic of human rights: the right to life and the right to choose. Perhaps the best way to look at this is to only look at the right to choose of the mother, at least it would be the more practical of approaches.
NotLurking