Nicaragaun Woman Given Pro-Life Death Sentence

[rab]

A young woman is denied treatment for cancer in Nicaragua because she's pregnant and the authorities don't want to hurt the baby. The Catholic Church has great political influence.

In the Nicaraguan city of Leon, a 27-year-old, known only as Amalia, is being denied treatment for cancer because she's 10 weeks pregnant and chemotherapy would harm her fetus. Since 2006, abortion has been illegal in Nicaragua under all circumstances, even when a woman's life is at stake, so while Amalia is in the hospital, nothing is being done for her. Amalia's sister has gone public, desperately seeking to pressure the government to help keep Amalia, who has a 10-year-old daughter, alive. La Prensa, Nicaragua's main newspaper, quoted her sister making a public statement interrupted by sobs. "We are asking that my sister be given treatment, we are asking that you don't forget that my sister is a human being, we are asking that this treatment be immediate," she said, before being unable to continue. But so far, the Nicaraguan Medical Association, a government group, insists that doctors must "luchar por las dos vidas por igual," or fight for both lives equally.

Amalia's life is being discarded because Daniel Ortega, determined to return to power, made a profoundly cynical deal with the Catholic Church. As head of the Sandinistas, he once led a movement with at least an ostensible commitment to feminist values; by some estimates, as many as a third of Sandinista militants were women. Yet 16 years after he was voted out of office, Ortega got religion in a bid to regain Nicaragua's presidency. He started attending mass regularly and peppering his speeches with references to God. He married his longtime companera, Rosario Murillo, in a wedding presided over by his onetime archenemy, Catholic Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo. He also threw his support behind the country's increasingly vocal anti-abortion movement.

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[Valden]

Terrible.

This is why the "Pro-Life" movement is anything but. They don't give a fuck about the women, as long as that fetus is born. And once it is, they stop caring. To them, it does not matter if the mother dies, as long as that fetus is born.

[owtth]

Women as nothing more than incubators, makes you proud to be human eh? :pissed:

[Mishakal]

Daniel Ortega reminds me of all those so-called "revolutionaries" in the sixties who were going to bring down the man and are now currently getting on social security while drinking their starbucks coffee at $7 per Tall.

Everyone sells out eventually... Danny has just sold out to the Catholics rather than Corporate America.

[Gareth1984]

In this case these people are not "pro-life" but rather more "pro babies being born who can be raised to be catholics".

[Thumpalumpacus]

Terrible.

This is why the "Pro-Life" movement is anything but. They don't give a fuck about the women, as long as that fetus is born. And once it is, they stop caring. To them, it does not matter if the mother dies, as long as that fetus is born.

The fact of the matter is that the anti-abortionists don't care about the fetus. They care about enforcing sexual mores.

"You laid down with a man? You dirty whore. Now bear your child and be done with it."

The control of sexual activity, particularly in women, is a prominent aspect of many religions.

[Valden]

Terrible.

This is why the "Pro-Life" movement is anything but. They don't give a fuck about the women, as long as that fetus is born. And once it is, they stop caring. To them, it does not matter if the mother dies, as long as that fetus is born.

The fact of the matter is that the anti-abortionists don't care about the fetus. They care about enforcing sexual mores.

"You laid down with a man? You dirty whore. Now bear your child and be done with it."

The control of sexual activity, particularly in women, is a prominent aspect of many religions.

Yes I realize that. It's really all about controlling everyone's sex lives and thus, really controlling women.
Which makes me wonder why so many women even convert to religions like Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

[mozg]

This is hardly the first time the Catholic church as committed murder.

[rab]

This is hardly the first time the Catholic church as committed murder.

True that. Even now, the pope is against condom use saying It could make the AIDS problem worse. Talk about backwards thinking! :pissed:

[mozg]

This is hardly the first time the Catholic church as committed murder.

True that. Even now, the pope is against condom use saying It could make the AIDS problem worse. Talk about backwards thinking! :pissed:

I think ultimately religion is the worst plague mankind has every faced.