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Activists Seek Abortion Rights in Nicaragua

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Ahead of presidential elections in Nicaragua on November 6, activists have taken to the streets of the capital, Managua, demanding that abortion be legalised. With one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Latin America, Nicaragua is one of the few countries in the world that bans therapeutic abortions.

November 2, 2011 - 12:55pm

Ahead of presidential elections in Nicaragua on November 6, activists have taken to the streets of the capital, Managua, demanding that abortion be legalised. With one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Latin America, Nicaragua is one of the few countries in the world that bans therapeutic abortions.

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Weekly Pulse: Obama to Promote Health Plan at Summit

by Lindsay E. Beyerstein, The Media Consortium

February 25, 2010 - 8:00am (Print)

Today, President Obama will hold a televised health care summit on his recently released plan for health reform, a last-ditch attempt to get Republicans to offer ideas for reform. In fact, he's hoping to give the GOP enough rope to hang itself.

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Nicaraguan Groups Call on International Community for Help in Case of Pregnant Woman Denied Cancer Treatment

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

February 23, 2010 - 10:15am (Print)

Women's groups in Nicaragua are calling on the international community to take action on the case of Amelia (an alias, also sometimes spelled Amalia), the pregnant Nicaraguan woman now being denied a therapeutic abortion and effective cancer treatment to save her life.

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Pregnant Nicaraguan Woman Denied Treatment for Metastatic Cancer

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

February 20, 2010 - 10:20am (Print)

Amalia (an alias), a 27-year old Nicaraguan woman with a 10-year-old daughter, has been diagnosed with metastatic cancer. She is in the hospital and could be treated, but for one thing: She is also pregnant and therefore her life is meaningless.

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The Nicaraguan Abortion Ban Tortures Women

reader diary by MADRE

July 30, 2009 - 9:44am (Print)

When women don’t have access to abortion services, their lives are in jeopardy. This truth has been abundantly clear in Nicaragua.

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Nicaraguan Laws Increase Maternal Mortality

by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

July 29, 2009 - 2:43pm (Print)

According to a report today from Feministing, Amnesty International has
started a campaign to repeal the anti-abortion laws in Nicaragua, which
were enacted one year ago—laws that ban abortion in every single case,
regardless of the state of the mother or the fetus’s health, mandating
prison sentences for women who request them and doctors who perform
them.

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Nicaragua: Working for Safety Despite Abortion Ban

by Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America

May 8, 2008 - 7:20am (Print)

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.

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Nicaraguan Assembly Recriminalizes All Abortion

by Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check

September 21, 2007 - 7:48am (Print)

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.

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Prueba de Fuego: Reflections on HIV Testing from Nicaragua

by Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check

June 28, 2007 - 8:00am (Print)

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.

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The Power of One Woman’s Story

by Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check

June 20, 2007 - 7:45am (Print)

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.

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