Nicaragua Slaps Women In The Face!!
Women in Nicaragua will not be allowed to undergo an abortion, even if their life is at stake.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaragua's Congress has voted to ban all abortions, despite the concerns of diplomats, doctors and women's rights advocates that the issue has become politicized ahead of presidential elections.
If signed into law by President Enrique Bolanos, the measure would eliminate a century-old exception to Nicaragua's abortion ban that permits the procedure if three doctors certify that a woman's health is at risk. Congress passed the bill Thursday.
The Managua-based Women's Autonomous Movement has said it is prepared to seek an injunction to block the measure.
The bill has the support of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front, whose presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega, is trying not to alienate conservative voters in this predominantly Roman Catholic country ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
Bolanos has spoken out against abortions and proposed increasing prison sentences for women who have the procedure, as well as for those who assist them. Illegal abortions now carry a six-year prison term, and the president wants it increased to 10 to 30 years.
It was unclear whether Bolanos would sign the bill after lawmakers decided against increasing penalties. The president, who has 15 days to sign or throw out the bill, did not make any statements after the vote.
Congress approved the bill despite receiving a letter from EU diplomats and U.N. representatives urging them to hold off until after the election. U.N. Assistant Secretary General Rebeca Grynspan, who is in Nicaragua this week, also expressed concerns about the vote taking place before the elections.
Nicaragua's medical association urged legislators to postpone the vote as well, saying the issue had become politicized.
Ortega, who favored abortion rights as a young revolutionary, has said he has become a devout Roman Catholic and now opposes abortion. Some 85 percent of Nicaragua's 5 million people are Catholic.
Ortega headed the socialist Sandinista government of the 1980s and had a contentious relationship with the Catholic Church. But he has recently established warm ties with leading church figures in Nicaragua.
In 2003, Sandinista-backed women's groups helped a 9-year-old Nicaraguan girl who had been raped in Costa Rica return to her homeland to get an abortion, outraging the Roman Catholic Church.
Congressman Wilfredo Navarro, of the ruling Liberal Constitutionalist Party, said the exception to Nicaragua's ban has allowed women to persuade doctors to say falsely that an abortion was necessary for health reasons.
Aside from Cuba, which allows abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, Latin America has some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws. El Salvador and Chile also ban abortions in all cases.
Most of the other countries in this heavily Roman Catholic region allow abortion when a woman's life is in danger but deny it to victims of rape or incest, according to the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights.
In May, Colombia's constitutional court legalized abortion in cases where fetuses were severely malformed, the pregnancy was the result of a rape or incest or the mother's life was in danger.
Around the world, more than a dozen countries have made it easier to get abortions in the past decade, and women from Mexico to Ireland have mounted court challenges to get access to the procedure.
I'm not surprised at all about this. Women are constantly losing their rights to everything. Why not add the right to control your own body to the list? Oh wait, that's because it's OUR bodies, not anybody else's. This problem can be solved pretty easily. Don't have sex with any man. As long as you don't have a right anymore to control your body or make medical decisions, don't have sex. If a man forces you to have sex, it's called RAPE!!
The question must be asked though. What happens to a man in Nicaragua if they rape a woman and make her pregnant? Does he go to jail? If a woman has an abortion, she's going to jail for at least six years. They want to make it ten to thirty years instead. So, what happens to the man that caused the situation in the first place? Is he going to rot away in a jail cell? Or is he going to be paraded around the country like a hero?
This just absolutely makes me sick. Men think that they have the right to control a woman, even control her body. They think that they have a right to rape a woman and face no consequences. But when a woman decides that she is not going to carry her rapist's baby to term, people call her a murderer and want to kill her or throw her in jail. The man on the other hand gets a pat on the back for being a rapist. Where's the justice in that?
And why am I not surprised that Daniel Ortega who is a presidential candidate in Nicaragua used to support abortion rights. But now that he's a Roman Catholic, he says to hell with women's rights. To hell with abortion rights.
What pro-life people around the world are saying to women is, "FUCK YOU. YOU'RE GOING TO BE RAPED. YOU'RE GOING TO BECOME PREGNANT. AND YOU'RE GOING TO CARRY THAT CHILD TO TERM. IF YOU HAVE AN ABORTION, WE'RE GOING TO THROW YOU IN JAIL. IF YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER, WHO GIVES A FUCK. THE LIFE OF THE FETUS IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR ASS. IF YOUR DADDY OR SOME OTHER MALE RELATIVE DECIDES THAT HE NEEDS TO HAVE SEX AND DECIDES THAT YOU'RE THE ONE THAT HE'S GOING TO HAVE SEX WITH, WHO GIVES A FUCK. AND IF YOU BECOME PREGNANT BECAUSE OF IT, WELL THEN YOU'RE THE FUCKING SLUT AND IT'S YOUR OWN FUCKING FAULT. OH IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT? STOP YOUR FUCKING WHINING. YOU ASKED TO BE RAPED. YOU ASKED FOR IT. YOU'RE THE SLUT. YOU DESERVED TO BE RAPED. WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FETUS. BUT AS SOON AS THAT FETUS IS BORN, WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THEM ANYMORE. AFTER ALL, IT'S ABOUT GOD. WE SPEAK FOR GOD. THEREFORE, YOU'RE GOING TO DO WHAT WE SAY AND IF YOU DON'T THEN WE'RE GOING TO MAKE YOUR LIVES A LIVING HELL. WE'RE GOING TO CALL YOU A SLUT. WE'RE GOING TO CALL YOU A MURDERER. IT IS THE CHRISTIANLY THING TO DO. JESUS WOULD BE SO PROUD!!"
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaragua's Congress has voted to ban all abortions, despite the concerns of diplomats, doctors and women's rights advocates that the issue has become politicized ahead of presidential elections.
If signed into law by President Enrique Bolanos, the measure would eliminate a century-old exception to Nicaragua's abortion ban that permits the procedure if three doctors certify that a woman's health is at risk. Congress passed the bill Thursday.
The Managua-based Women's Autonomous Movement has said it is prepared to seek an injunction to block the measure.
The bill has the support of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front, whose presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega, is trying not to alienate conservative voters in this predominantly Roman Catholic country ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
Bolanos has spoken out against abortions and proposed increasing prison sentences for women who have the procedure, as well as for those who assist them. Illegal abortions now carry a six-year prison term, and the president wants it increased to 10 to 30 years.
It was unclear whether Bolanos would sign the bill after lawmakers decided against increasing penalties. The president, who has 15 days to sign or throw out the bill, did not make any statements after the vote.
Congress approved the bill despite receiving a letter from EU diplomats and U.N. representatives urging them to hold off until after the election. U.N. Assistant Secretary General Rebeca Grynspan, who is in Nicaragua this week, also expressed concerns about the vote taking place before the elections.
Nicaragua's medical association urged legislators to postpone the vote as well, saying the issue had become politicized.
Ortega, who favored abortion rights as a young revolutionary, has said he has become a devout Roman Catholic and now opposes abortion. Some 85 percent of Nicaragua's 5 million people are Catholic.
Ortega headed the socialist Sandinista government of the 1980s and had a contentious relationship with the Catholic Church. But he has recently established warm ties with leading church figures in Nicaragua.
In 2003, Sandinista-backed women's groups helped a 9-year-old Nicaraguan girl who had been raped in Costa Rica return to her homeland to get an abortion, outraging the Roman Catholic Church.
Congressman Wilfredo Navarro, of the ruling Liberal Constitutionalist Party, said the exception to Nicaragua's ban has allowed women to persuade doctors to say falsely that an abortion was necessary for health reasons.
Aside from Cuba, which allows abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, Latin America has some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws. El Salvador and Chile also ban abortions in all cases.
Most of the other countries in this heavily Roman Catholic region allow abortion when a woman's life is in danger but deny it to victims of rape or incest, according to the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights.
In May, Colombia's constitutional court legalized abortion in cases where fetuses were severely malformed, the pregnancy was the result of a rape or incest or the mother's life was in danger.
Around the world, more than a dozen countries have made it easier to get abortions in the past decade, and women from Mexico to Ireland have mounted court challenges to get access to the procedure.
I'm not surprised at all about this. Women are constantly losing their rights to everything. Why not add the right to control your own body to the list? Oh wait, that's because it's OUR bodies, not anybody else's. This problem can be solved pretty easily. Don't have sex with any man. As long as you don't have a right anymore to control your body or make medical decisions, don't have sex. If a man forces you to have sex, it's called RAPE!!
The question must be asked though. What happens to a man in Nicaragua if they rape a woman and make her pregnant? Does he go to jail? If a woman has an abortion, she's going to jail for at least six years. They want to make it ten to thirty years instead. So, what happens to the man that caused the situation in the first place? Is he going to rot away in a jail cell? Or is he going to be paraded around the country like a hero?
This just absolutely makes me sick. Men think that they have the right to control a woman, even control her body. They think that they have a right to rape a woman and face no consequences. But when a woman decides that she is not going to carry her rapist's baby to term, people call her a murderer and want to kill her or throw her in jail. The man on the other hand gets a pat on the back for being a rapist. Where's the justice in that?
And why am I not surprised that Daniel Ortega who is a presidential candidate in Nicaragua used to support abortion rights. But now that he's a Roman Catholic, he says to hell with women's rights. To hell with abortion rights.
What pro-life people around the world are saying to women is, "FUCK YOU. YOU'RE GOING TO BE RAPED. YOU'RE GOING TO BECOME PREGNANT. AND YOU'RE GOING TO CARRY THAT CHILD TO TERM. IF YOU HAVE AN ABORTION, WE'RE GOING TO THROW YOU IN JAIL. IF YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER, WHO GIVES A FUCK. THE LIFE OF THE FETUS IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR ASS. IF YOUR DADDY OR SOME OTHER MALE RELATIVE DECIDES THAT HE NEEDS TO HAVE SEX AND DECIDES THAT YOU'RE THE ONE THAT HE'S GOING TO HAVE SEX WITH, WHO GIVES A FUCK. AND IF YOU BECOME PREGNANT BECAUSE OF IT, WELL THEN YOU'RE THE FUCKING SLUT AND IT'S YOUR OWN FUCKING FAULT. OH IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT? STOP YOUR FUCKING WHINING. YOU ASKED TO BE RAPED. YOU ASKED FOR IT. YOU'RE THE SLUT. YOU DESERVED TO BE RAPED. WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FETUS. BUT AS SOON AS THAT FETUS IS BORN, WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THEM ANYMORE. AFTER ALL, IT'S ABOUT GOD. WE SPEAK FOR GOD. THEREFORE, YOU'RE GOING TO DO WHAT WE SAY AND IF YOU DON'T THEN WE'RE GOING TO MAKE YOUR LIVES A LIVING HELL. WE'RE GOING TO CALL YOU A SLUT. WE'RE GOING TO CALL YOU A MURDERER. IT IS THE CHRISTIANLY THING TO DO. JESUS WOULD BE SO PROUD!!"
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