Gagged In Mexico
Gagged in Mexico
By Michelle Wojcik
Imagine being a young girl in Mexico and you get raped by your father. This situation should be hard enough to imagine, but to add on to your problem, you realize that you are pregnant. You know that you don't want the baby so you plan on aborting it. The laws are very strict in Mexico when dealing with abortion and you know this. Since this is a case of rape, it states in the law that it is legal for you to abort the fetus. One problem, when you go to get the abortion, no doctor will do it in fear of being prosecuted by the government. You think to yourself that this shouldn't be happening because the law clearly states that this is a legal thing to do, but in Mexico, even f it is a law, doctors …show more content…
One problem President Bush ordered the State Department to withhold the U.S.'s family planning help from overseas groups that promote or perform abortions without their own money. Mexico doesn't have the best economy and there are families in poverty that cannot afford abortions. So families have a choice, they can get the abortion and give up government money for family planning that they are eligible for, or they can keep it which is their choice. If they don't want the fetus though, the woman is endangered and so is her family when it come to their health and healthcare. Women are essentially given an ultimatum in the long …show more content…
Having the church threatening people makes it very difficult for things to change anytime soon. The country is experiencing "in increasingly acrimonious debate over abortion" with recent restrictions imposed in several Mexican states "sparking widespread protests from women's groups and human right's organizations, who saw it as a sign of growing influence of the religious right." On October 18, dozens of police raided a clinic of an international family planning agency and arrested a doctor and nurse accused of performing abortions. This is why doctors refuse to perform abortions in fear of the authorities. If the doctors won't perform them, then women resort to unsanitary abortions to ensure that they don't have the baby, putting many women in danger of bad medical
By Michelle Wojcik
Imagine being a young girl in Mexico and you get raped by your father. This situation should be hard enough to imagine, but to add on to your problem, you realize that you are pregnant. You know that you don't want the baby so you plan on aborting it. The laws are very strict in Mexico when dealing with abortion and you know this. Since this is a case of rape, it states in the law that it is legal for you to abort the fetus. One problem, when you go to get the abortion, no doctor will do it in fear of being prosecuted by the government. You think to yourself that this shouldn't be happening because the law clearly states that this is a legal thing to do, but in Mexico, even f it is a law, doctors …show more content…
One problem President Bush ordered the State Department to withhold the U.S.'s family planning help from overseas groups that promote or perform abortions without their own money. Mexico doesn't have the best economy and there are families in poverty that cannot afford abortions. So families have a choice, they can get the abortion and give up government money for family planning that they are eligible for, or they can keep it which is their choice. If they don't want the fetus though, the woman is endangered and so is her family when it come to their health and healthcare. Women are essentially given an ultimatum in the long …show more content…
Having the church threatening people makes it very difficult for things to change anytime soon. The country is experiencing "in increasingly acrimonious debate over abortion" with recent restrictions imposed in several Mexican states "sparking widespread protests from women's groups and human right's organizations, who saw it as a sign of growing influence of the religious right." On October 18, dozens of police raided a clinic of an international family planning agency and arrested a doctor and nurse accused of performing abortions. This is why doctors refuse to perform abortions in fear of the authorities. If the doctors won't perform them, then women resort to unsanitary abortions to ensure that they don't have the baby, putting many women in danger of bad medical