the Girl became pregnant after being used by a 65-year-old man related to the family, according to The Guardian. The pregnancy was discovered in January when the girl visited a medical center in the hemprovinsen Tucumán, and she was later admitted to a hospital after two suicide attempts. ”I want you to take it off the old man put in me”, she should have said to the psychologist at the hospital.
in Argentina, but not if the pregnancy is the result of a rape or when the expectant mother’s health is in danger. A doctor also stated in court that the girl was facing ”high obstetric risk” if the pregnancy was allowed to continue.
Despite the fact that she had the legal right to abortion, they took local authorities nearly five weeks to act, including a number of doctors, according to Reuters refused to carry out aborten ”on samvetliga basics”.
In a radio interview said Tucumáns the minister of health that he was in close contact with both the girl and her mother and elvaåringen ”wanted to continue her pregnancy”, a claim which, however, are contradicted by the people with access to the domstolsdokumenten, writes The Guardian.
the pregnancy continued until week 23, and the doctors thought it was too risky to carry out an abortion. Instead was performed a caesarean section on the girl on Tuesday.
” We saved the life of an eleven year-old girl who in one month was tortured by the health care system in the province, said the doctor who performed the procedure, Cecilia Ousset, according to The Guardian.
The premature baby is reported to be difficult for it to survive.
Several human rights activists and the proponents of abortion have reacted strongly to the treatment of the girl. Margaret Wurth, researcher at the organization Human Rights Watch, believes that the authorities should investigate and fix the ”unacceptable” obstacles that stopped aborten.
“this is a sickening abuse of power by the authorities, which severely risked a two-year-old girl’s health and forced her to continue a pregnancy against her will,” she says to Reuters.
south America is Argentina is mainly roman catholic and has some of the world’s toughest abortlagar, with up to four years in prison for women who do abortion. Tucumáns archbishop and a journalist at Argentina’s largest newspaper, is among those who defended the law in connection with the elvaåringens cases, and abortmotståndarnas slogans ”save both lives” was repeated in a statement from Tucumáns provincial government.
the Senate in Argentina voted last fall to introduce abortion, but the proposal lost by a narrow margin. The law does not stop abortion in the country. According to The Guardian shows estimates that upwards of 450,000 unsafe abortions, an average of one every 90 seconds, are carried out in secret every year in Argentina.
