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Dying woman denied abortion in El Salvador
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SayaOtonashi
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I hope this doesn't happen to any other woman there. This is why I want abortion to stay legal because I worry very crazy people would rather have a woman die.
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Good news that she is stable after the procedure! (Thanks Saya and Cearbhall)
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/el-salvador-beatriz-update-2013-06-04
"4 June 2013
El Salvador: After Beatriz, no more women must suffer discrimination and torture
Abortion is illegal in El Salvador in all circumstances.
© Amnesty International.
“The Salvadoran government must immediately take action to end the total ban on abortion and bring its legislation into line with international human rights standards. Laws must not tie the hands of doctors, or prevent women and girls from accessing a treatment which is necessary, as in this case, to save their lives or health.”
Esther Major, Central America Researcher at Amnesty International.
No woman should be denied lifesaving medical treatment – including abortion if necessary – Amnesty International said after the Salvadoran authorities waited for weeks before taking action to save the life of a seriously ill pregnant woman.
The life of “Beatriz” is no longer at risk after El Salvador’s government on Monday finally administered an early caesarean section to stop her from dying because of complications posed by a non-viable pregnancy and serious illness.
Beatriz – whose case has galvanized activists around the world – was made to suffer for weeks on end while El Salvador’s courts and officials debated whether to treat her.
“We wish Beatriz a speedy and full recovery after this harrowing and unnecessarily drawn-out experience,” said Esther Major, Amnesty International’s researcher on El Salvador.
“At the same time, we want to clearly state that no woman or girl should experience the kind of discrimination and torture Beatriz went through when she was fighting for her life while being denied access to life saving and health preserving abortion services.”
"Every woman – in El Salvador or anywhere else in the world – should be allowed access to lifesaving medical treatment when they need it, the organization said.
“The Salvadoran government must immediately take action to end the total ban on abortion and bring its legislation into line with international human rights standards. Laws must not tie the hands of doctors, or prevent women and girls from accessing a treatment which is necessary, as in this case, to save their lives or health," said Major.
“This appalling situation should never have occurred. It was an act of unimaginable cruelty for the Salvadoran government to have toyed with her life and health this way. For over two months, Beatriz has waited in anguish and ill-health, not knowing if she would survive another day of the pregnancy. It is hard to believe that she was forced to campaign to save her own life and health. We are humbled by Beatriz's bravery in the face of this cruelty," she added.
Beatriz was not alone. Alongside the Agrupación Ciudadana, who worked tirelessy on her behalf, were hundreds of thousands of people across the world who added their voices to the call for her human rights to be upheld, many of them responding to the different appeals made by Amnesty international offices all over the world.
Background information
Beatriz is currently recovering in hospital. The 22-year-old – who was already the mother of a young son – suffers from a number of severe illnesses including lupus and kidney problems, which meant that continuing the non-viable anencephalic pregnancy posed a serious threat to her life and health. Doctors said Beatriz could die if she continued with the pregnancy but did not treat her for fear of being prosecuted under the country’s total ban on abortion.
As predicted by doctors, the foetus survived just a few hours after being born without large parts of its head and brain."
El Salvador: After Beatriz, no more women must suffer discrimination and torture | Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/el-salvador-beatriz-update-2013-06-04
"4 June 2013
El Salvador: After Beatriz, no more women must suffer discrimination and torture
Abortion is illegal in El Salvador in all circumstances.
© Amnesty International.
“The Salvadoran government must immediately take action to end the total ban on abortion and bring its legislation into line with international human rights standards. Laws must not tie the hands of doctors, or prevent women and girls from accessing a treatment which is necessary, as in this case, to save their lives or health.”
Esther Major, Central America Researcher at Amnesty International.
No woman should be denied lifesaving medical treatment – including abortion if necessary – Amnesty International said after the Salvadoran authorities waited for weeks before taking action to save the life of a seriously ill pregnant woman.
The life of “Beatriz” is no longer at risk after El Salvador’s government on Monday finally administered an early caesarean section to stop her from dying because of complications posed by a non-viable pregnancy and serious illness.
Beatriz – whose case has galvanized activists around the world – was made to suffer for weeks on end while El Salvador’s courts and officials debated whether to treat her.
“We wish Beatriz a speedy and full recovery after this harrowing and unnecessarily drawn-out experience,” said Esther Major, Amnesty International’s researcher on El Salvador.
“At the same time, we want to clearly state that no woman or girl should experience the kind of discrimination and torture Beatriz went through when she was fighting for her life while being denied access to life saving and health preserving abortion services.”
"Every woman – in El Salvador or anywhere else in the world – should be allowed access to lifesaving medical treatment when they need it, the organization said.
“The Salvadoran government must immediately take action to end the total ban on abortion and bring its legislation into line with international human rights standards. Laws must not tie the hands of doctors, or prevent women and girls from accessing a treatment which is necessary, as in this case, to save their lives or health," said Major.
“This appalling situation should never have occurred. It was an act of unimaginable cruelty for the Salvadoran government to have toyed with her life and health this way. For over two months, Beatriz has waited in anguish and ill-health, not knowing if she would survive another day of the pregnancy. It is hard to believe that she was forced to campaign to save her own life and health. We are humbled by Beatriz's bravery in the face of this cruelty," she added.
Beatriz was not alone. Alongside the Agrupación Ciudadana, who worked tirelessy on her behalf, were hundreds of thousands of people across the world who added their voices to the call for her human rights to be upheld, many of them responding to the different appeals made by Amnesty international offices all over the world.
Background information
Beatriz is currently recovering in hospital. The 22-year-old – who was already the mother of a young son – suffers from a number of severe illnesses including lupus and kidney problems, which meant that continuing the non-viable anencephalic pregnancy posed a serious threat to her life and health. Doctors said Beatriz could die if she continued with the pregnancy but did not treat her for fear of being prosecuted under the country’s total ban on abortion.
As predicted by doctors, the foetus survived just a few hours after being born without large parts of its head and brain."
El Salvador: After Beatriz, no more women must suffer discrimination and torture | Amnesty International
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Thank goodness logic prevailed. How sad that women even have to go through this in these countries when their life is at stake.
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Yep so much better to let babies starve to death because the parents don't want them like in the US. Point being all countries could do things better than they do.
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Beatriz has been released from the hospital and is smiling, she will soon or has already seen her son again 
. Her life has been saved
Doctors give discharge to Beatriz
http : // ww w . microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Finternacional.elpais.com%2Finternacional%2F2013%2F06%2F11%2Factualidad%2F1370911320_066504.html
El Pais International
translated page from spanish
June 11
Doctors have discharged this afternoon to Beatriz, the young woman who embarked on all a fighting judicial request to El Salvador that it allowed to interrupt the pregnancy that put at serious risk his life, a practice which the law punishes in the country under any circumstances. The woman, which finally underwent a caesarean section in the week 27 of pregnancy after waiting for nearly two months, has left the Maternity Hospital of San Salvador. You must now undergo stringent medical checks not only to analyze the pathologies arising from her pregnancy risk and intervention; also lupus erythematosus and acute renal pathology who suffers need constant medical follow-up, they specified sanitary sources.
"I already left. They let me go me", says the young woman with a smile. Prepares to now embark on a long path to the village where she lives, in the southeast of the country. "The first thing I'm going to do when you get home is to embrace my son. I have since 20 may not see him... long time", emphasizes the young. Beatriz, of 22 years, has a small of 14 months to which she loves. That first pregnancy was also high risk, although not as severe as the second. Danger, moreover, useless, experts diagnosed that the daughter who hoped had anencephaly. She was effectively born with serious anomalies and survived only five hours.
Now, Beatriz has wanted to rebuild their lives. Takes two months away from home, spending only small moments with her husband, day laborer. It has to still pull you points and that it is uncomfortable, but she wants to eat "food rich". "Not of the hospital", points out with a half-smile.
"We will be very attentive accompanying Beatriz, also supporting emotional level", indicates Angélica Rivas, the group citizens for the decriminalization of abortion. This organization has attended the young woman throughout the judicial process and has given psychological support at the hospital. "While this legislation which prohibits any kind of abortion is not changed, we sadly risk that cases like yours become repeat." It is unfair for the rights of women in El Salvador. Beatriz had strength challenge the system and request the interruption of pregnancy, if it has been released, but many others do not know that they can take that step or do not have the necessary support,"he added.
never give up!
. Her life has been savedDoctors give discharge to Beatriz
http : // ww w . microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Finternacional.elpais.com%2Finternacional%2F2013%2F06%2F11%2Factualidad%2F1370911320_066504.html
El Pais International
translated page from spanish
June 11
Doctors have discharged this afternoon to Beatriz, the young woman who embarked on all a fighting judicial request to El Salvador that it allowed to interrupt the pregnancy that put at serious risk his life, a practice which the law punishes in the country under any circumstances. The woman, which finally underwent a caesarean section in the week 27 of pregnancy after waiting for nearly two months, has left the Maternity Hospital of San Salvador. You must now undergo stringent medical checks not only to analyze the pathologies arising from her pregnancy risk and intervention; also lupus erythematosus and acute renal pathology who suffers need constant medical follow-up, they specified sanitary sources.
"I already left. They let me go me", says the young woman with a smile. Prepares to now embark on a long path to the village where she lives, in the southeast of the country. "The first thing I'm going to do when you get home is to embrace my son. I have since 20 may not see him... long time", emphasizes the young. Beatriz, of 22 years, has a small of 14 months to which she loves. That first pregnancy was also high risk, although not as severe as the second. Danger, moreover, useless, experts diagnosed that the daughter who hoped had anencephaly. She was effectively born with serious anomalies and survived only five hours.
Now, Beatriz has wanted to rebuild their lives. Takes two months away from home, spending only small moments with her husband, day laborer. It has to still pull you points and that it is uncomfortable, but she wants to eat "food rich". "Not of the hospital", points out with a half-smile.
"We will be very attentive accompanying Beatriz, also supporting emotional level", indicates Angélica Rivas, the group citizens for the decriminalization of abortion. This organization has attended the young woman throughout the judicial process and has given psychological support at the hospital. "While this legislation which prohibits any kind of abortion is not changed, we sadly risk that cases like yours become repeat." It is unfair for the rights of women in El Salvador. Beatriz had strength challenge the system and request the interruption of pregnancy, if it has been released, but many others do not know that they can take that step or do not have the necessary support,"he added.
never give up!
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Well, it was to be expected. The baby had no chance of survival outside of the womb. How sad, but at least they were able to perform a life saving operation that wouldn't put the mother in legal trouble. Now hopefully they tied her tubes so she won't have to be in this predicament again, since pregnancy is so dangerous with her medical conditions.
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