Mexico to compensate woman denied an abortion after rape

[Judi Lynn]

March 8, 2006, 1:39AM
Mexico to compensate woman denied an abortion after rape

By MARION LLOYD
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government is expected to offer a financial settlement today to a woman who was raped at 13 and then denied an abortion in violation of Mexican law.

"This is the most important legal victory for women in Mexico in a decade," said Luisa Cabal of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based rights group. "It is the first time a Latin American government has acknowledged that access to legal abortion is a human right."

The center and its partners in Mexico brought the case before the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights on behalf of "Paulina," whose case gained international attention after officials, doctors and anti-abortion activists in her hometown of Mexicali on Mexico's Pacific coast pressured her not to obtain an abortion.

Paulina's supporters chose today — International Women's Day — to announce the settlement, which comes exactly four years after they took her case to the commission.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3708494.html

[Erika]

1. South Dakotans would have a fit

What does rape have to do with anything? We could have gotten a good commission from selling the baby. This is anti capitalism!!!

Tell those sniveling women to shove it. Gonzales to defend Unruh.

[Richard Steele]

2. No, not THAT baby!

It wouldn't have matched the drapes, if you know what I mean.:eyes:

[Erika]

3. True

I guess the market pays a better price for babies born of the South Dakota people.

[sandnsea]

4. If anyone decides to read the whole thing

be sure to have a drink or a bottle of aspirin handy. It is the most stunning shit you've ready in a long time, I guarantee you.

[Judi Lynn]

5. It is, isn't it? Living proof human beings with power over others

can be fantastically deluded, and unfit for their positions. What a shame these women have had to live with the judgements of such sick people, after being wildly abused before they even went to the officials for "help."

[sandnsea]

6. That last paragraph

about that poor girl and the "little child-sibling". That is just horrible, and think about that poor child when he grows up, what are they going to tell him!! And those women, what are they thinking. These women aren't any better off than ME women are, and they're right across the border. Mind-numbing stuff.

[enlightenment]

7. I wonder how many US families

can claim similar situations? How many of those families that sport "stair step" children (a year or two apart) and then have an "accident" 10 or 15 years after the last child born are really hiding a different sort of "accident," I wonder?

My family recently gained a new cousin -- a 50 year old cousin (product of a then 16 year old aunt who gave her up for adoption). We're delighted to have her back in the fold and very happy that she was fortunate to have wonderful, loving parents. My older siblings remember this aunt staying with my family, and my parents now admit that they considered "assuming" the baby -- just pretending she was their child.

Obviously, they didn't "assume" her, for many reasons,but they might have -- and who would have really known the difference?

The point is that we make a lot of assumptions about family structure in this country that are only partially correct. I suspect a tremendous amount of this kind of thing went on pre-Roe, and after. I wonder how much more it is happening now, with the concerted assault on womens' rights?

[sandnsea]

8. kick n/t

[Lars39]

9. I'm sorry, but that official at Jalisco should be shoved off a cliff.

[sandnsea]

10. And a woman no less

The whole thing is just stunning.