NicaraguaNicaragua: Working for Safety Despite Abortion Ban
Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America on May 8, 2008 - 8:20am
After more than a hundred years of legally allowing women access to a therapeutic abortion, in October 2006 the Nicaraguan National Assembly banned this procedure in all circumstances. Now women's health groups are working to mitigate the damage.
Published under: Global PerspectiveAccess to Abortion | Women’s Rightsunsafe abortion | therapeutic abortion | Nicaragua | miscarriage | illegal abortion | ectopic pregnancy
Nicaraguan Assembly Recriminalizes All Abortion
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on September 21, 2007 - 8:48am
Last Thursday, the Nicaraguan National Assembly voted 66-3 to recriminalize therapeutic abortion during an overhaul of the Nicaraguan penal code, again choosing unvarnished political opportunism over accepted medical consensus and concern for women's health. Published under: Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s RightsNicaragua | therapeutic abortion
Prueba de Fuego: Reflections on HIV Testing from Nicaragua
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on June 28, 2007 - 9:00am
HIV is not yet widespread in Nicaragua, but with no sexuality education to speak of, a weak health system, and a culture of machismo that leaves women with little control over their sexual and reproductive lives, young people and women face particular HIV risk, and their infection rates are climbing. The Power of One Woman’s Story
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on June 20, 2007 - 8:45am
Andrea Lynch honors Marta Solay, who shared her compelling story with Colombia's Supreme Court in order to help legalize abortion in cases where a woman's health or life is in danger. Reflections on Nicaragua’s Abortion Ban
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on May 24, 2007 - 8:45am
Andrea Lynch shares candid reflections from Evelyn Flores Mayorga from Puntos de Encuentro on the Nicaraguan total abortion ban—how it passed into law and what has happened since then. Hell Hath No Fury like an Entire Female Population Scorned
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on April 26, 2007 - 8:45am
The Supreme Court has effectively unfurled the judicial equivalent of a banner reading "Bring it on, Roe haters!" by upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003; we can expect even more state-level restrictions in the months and years to come. Meanwhile, Nicaragua women are suffering from that country's total abortion ban—36 women have died from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes so far in 2007. Published under: Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s RightsJudicial Activism | Supreme Court | Nicaragua | partial birth abortion | Father Knows Best
Nicaraguan Women Gather Once Again to Demand Their Right to Life
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on March 14, 2007 - 8:55am
Last Thursday, in commemoration of International Women's Day, over two thousand women and men from across Nicaragua gathered to protest the total ban on abortion—including in cases where pregnant women's lives are at risk—that has been in place since late 2006. Nicaragua’s Abortion Ban Claims Another Victim
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on February 16, 2007 - 9:00am
Sad, sad news from Nicaragua, where another young mother has died as a result of the new law prohibiting abortion under any circumstances—including when a pregnant woman's life is at risk. On February 7 the Nicaraguan daily El Nuevo Diario reported that 22-year-old Francis Zamora died at Managua's Hospital Berta Calderón on January 30 from a massive infection resulting from a miscarriage that had begun days earlier. Claiming that their hands were tied by the new law, doctors had refused to perform a D&C (procedure to empty the uterus) that could have saved her life until it was too late. Francis leaves behind her mother, as well as three children, ages six, five, and one and a half. Published under: Access to AbortionNicaragua
Movie Review: The Tragedy and Triumph of “Rosita”
Marcy Bloom, GIRE on February 16, 2007 - 8:55am
Talk about a film that has all of the elements of great human drama and pits the marginalized against the powerful. Such is the story of "Rosita," an hour-long documentary by award-winning filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater. In January 2003, the international press broke the story of a pregnant 9-year-old Nicaraguan girl who had been raped in Costa Rica. Rosita, as she comes to be called to preserve her anonymity, is the daughter of illiterate campesinos who had moved to Costa Rica to pick coffee, the classic story of impoverished immigrants seeking a better life. Rosita is a carefree and intelligent 8-year-old girl who loves her life in the country and loves dolls, dogs, chicken, and hens. She is in the second grade and learning to read and write; she paints and draws the world around her, and is elected "Miss Congeniality" at her school. Her child's world is shattered when she is raped by a 22-year-old neighbor who lures her into his home with promises of sweet tangerines and colorful TV shows. Reconsidering Nicaragua’s Abortion Ban
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on January 31, 2007 - 9:00am
Here's an international abortion item you won't read about in LifeSiteNews: after reflecting on it for five minutes, a range of Nicaraguan decision-makers from both the Church and the State have suddenly decided that criminalizing abortion to save a woman's life might not be such a great idea after all. Would that they had been captured by the spirit of reflection back in October, when they joined together in an unholy alliance to yank the 130-year-old therapeutic abortion provision from the Nicaraguan Penal Code in the space of a few weeks, thereby rendering the procedure illegal under any circumstances, including health- and life-threatening pregnancies. |
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