Nicaraguan ban on abortion

Groups Petition Inter-American Human Rights Commission on Behalf of Pregnant Nicaraguan Denied Cancer Treatment

Author image

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

February 22, 2010 - 3:30pm (Print)

A coalition in Nicaragua has formally requested that the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights demand the Nicaraguan government take urgent measures to protect the life of Amelia, a 27-year-old Nicaraguan woman with metastatic cancer refused a therapeutic abortion under the country's draconian law.

Follow Jodi Jacobson on Twitter, @jljacobson

. . . . . . . . . .
Syndicate content