Brazil
If you can't grasp the basics -- women have minds and feelings, just like men -- it's a short jump to dehumanizing women and girls in other ways.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva has chastised the Catholic Church for excommunicating the doctors and family of the nine-year-old girl who had an abortion.
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A Catholic bishop in Brazil says the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl, pregnant as a result of incest and who had an abortion, should be excommunicated.
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An estimated one million illegal abortions occur in Brazil each year, yet very few women have ever been imprisoned on for seeking abortion care. That may be about to change. In April, officials took a brisk departure from the nation's relative "tolerance" of illegal abortion practice, arresting the head of a two decade-old family planning clinic for providing abortions and seizing the medical records of nearly 10,000 women.
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In both Brazil and Kansas, the medical records of thousands of women who had undergone an abortion were ordered turned over to the police. Women in Brazil are being prosecuted. Is America far behind?
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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America July 21, 2008 - 7:00am
Despite shocking maternal health indicators, Brazil's Congress recently voted down a bill that would have legalized abortion.
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Watch video of McCain squirming for eight long seconds in response to a birth control question, Birth control prices continue to rise, Catching up on RH issues in Latin America.
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A new poll shows that the public is at odds with their country's laws. Most people reject using criminal penalties to prevent abortions.
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By Moises Russo, RH Reality Check, South America May 24, 2007 - 7:35am
Brazil recently stood up to the pharmaceutical company Merck by dismissing the patent for Efavirenz in order to continue to be able to provide this antiretroviral drugs to all HIV-positive people in Brazil for free.
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By Denise Hirao, International Women's Health Coalition May 10, 2007 - 2:20pm
The Pope's presence in Brazil represents a challenge for politicians in the world's largest Catholic country, due to an already heated debate between public health concerns and church policy.
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