Rape Victims Denied Abortions in Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

Rape Victims Denied Abortions in Mexico
Rape Victims in Mexico Still Denied Abortions Despite Legal Guarantees, Human Rights Watch Reports
By IOAN GRILLO

MEXICO CITY Mar 7, 2006 (AP)— State officials across Mexico routinely deny rape victims legally allowed access to safe abortions, a human rights group reported Tuesday.

The study by the New York-based Human Rights Watch was presented three years after Mexico drew international criticism when a teenage rape victim was denied an abortion and brought her case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Little has changed since then, the report said.

"Again and again, we are finding the same cases of women going through the first trauma of being raped and then going through another trauma at the hands of government officials," study author Marianne Mollmann said.

Titled "The Second Assault: Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion in Mexico," the 92-page report was based on interviews with more than 100 lawyers, doctors, officials and rape victims across the country.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1697160

[Mithras61]

1. This will be happening here soon...

if we don't take back OUR country...

[BlueIris]

8. Did you see MM.com's feature headline today?

"It's bad, but it's no South Dakota," with pics of the offramp signs on freeways in Baja heading to Mexico.

[rinsd]

2. But I thought HRW was a tool of the neocons?

:evilgrin:

[Ignacio Upton]

3. I guess Canada will be having an illegal immigration problem

soon coming from south of its border.

[sasquatch]

4. Will Americans stay in Canada though

[rodeodance]

5. speculations here:

....Cruz believes the situation stems from Mexico's traditionally macho culture and from the influence of the conservative Roman Catholic Church about 90 percent of Mexico's citizens are at least nominally Catholic.

"A lot of government officials start lecturing the victims about their own personal beliefs. They sometimes say women should not have been wearing short skirts or have been out late. They say abortion is wrong," Cruz said.

Mollmann argued that it is not a cultural issue.

"Rape and abuse are not cultural. They are problems of officials' attitudes toward human rights," she said.

[MrPrax]

7. You got it...

The biggest shaker and mover behind this internationally is the CATHOLIC CHURCH--but of course to say that maybe it's about time to start--um--adding Catholics to the list of 'things that can be hated' will of course be sacrificed to the alter of religious freedom and tolerance; our tolerance, their oppression.

[HuffleClaw]

6. this is news?

obstructin access to legal abortion in... hmmmmm, there is another nation that has a real problem with increasing barriers to legal abortion, a neighbor of mexico as i recall.