Opinion: The 11-year-old Argentine girl is not alone. Latin America’s abortion laws are a form of torture.
People participate in a rally on the occasion of the first anniversary of the"panuelazo" for the legalization of abortion, in Buenos Aires on Feb. 19. By Erika Guevara-Rosas March 5 at 1:28 PM Erika Guevara-Rosas is the Americas director at Amnesty International.
“Nobody in all the regional health system wanted to interrupt the pregnancy,” said Cecilia Ousset, one of the gynecologists who came to the hospital to perform the procedure after the staff there refused to do it on personal grounds. “It was just us, but we couldn’t abandon her,” she told Argentina’s Infobae news site. “… If we didn’t interrupt the pregnancy, this girl would have died.”
We frequently hear devastating stories of girls who are not only suffering endemic rates of sexual violence but are also forced to become mothers against their will. Their cases make headlines in national and international media outlets, and society is outraged about their testimonies. Latin America authorities have shown alarming negligence in failing to protect women and girls from gender-based violence. Instead of supporting survivors, they frequently revictimize them and deepen their suffering. By denying their right to legal abortion, they also put their rights to life and health at risk.
Elsewhere in the region, Chile made progress by decriminalizing abortion under certain circumstances in 2017, while Ecuador’s National Assembly will soon vote on a bill to decriminalize abortion in cases of rape.
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