SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador \u2014 A seriously ill Salvadoran woman whose struggle to get a medical abortion drew international attention received permission on Thursday to end the troubled pregnancy with a Caesarean section.<\/p>\n
El Salvador\u2019s health minister on Thursday approved the C-section for the 22-year-old woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus, a day after the Supreme Court ruled that she could not have an abortion despite her lawyers\u2019 appeal that the pregnancy was life-threatening.<\/p>\n
Ultrasound images indicate that her fetus is developing with only a brain stem and is given no chance of surviving.<\/p>\n
The case of the mother, known only as Beatriz, drew widespread attention and criticism as she sought to end the pregnancy in a country with some of the strictest abortion laws in Latin America. Salvadoran laws prohibit all abortions, even when a woman\u2019s health is at risk, and the woman and any doctor who terminated her pregnancy would face arrest and criminal charges.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is in the hands of top-notch doctors,\u201d Health Minister Maria Isabel Rodriguez said Thursday. \u201cThe medical team at the Maternity Hospital is ready to act immediately at the slightest sign of danger.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me what matters is to protect Beatriz\u2019s life,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Because the pregnancy is 26 weeks along, abortion laws are no longer at play, according to women\u2019s groups who have supported her petition. Rather, the health ministry can determine what\u2019s most medically sound for the mother versus the unborn baby. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador \u2014 A seriously ill Salvadoran woman whose struggle to get a medical abortion drew international attention received permission on Thursday to end the troubled pregnancy with a Caesarean section. El Salvador\u2019s health minister on Thursday approved the C-section for the 22-year-old woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus, a day after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35941,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35940\/revisions\/35941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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