Costa Rica Report Indicates Number of Illegal Abortions Supposedly Rising
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by Steven Ertelt | WASHINGTON, DC | LIFENEWS.COM | 9/23/08 9:00 AM
Article Introduction by Marcela Fonseca
Abortion is a controversial topic. Since the past of time women are trying to take decissions in their lives to take 100% control and when a unwanted pregnancy appears in their lives women analized which is the better way to take to keep live going on. This article informs a situation that many costaricans ignore or pretend to ignore. Abortion is illegal in Costa Rica and people thinks that if it is illegal, women does not ask for this kind of medical intervention. But the reality is that many people or doctors are practicing abortion and the way the medical authorithies known this is when women came to the hospitals with a terrible bleeding or bad consequences of the intervention.
Costa Rica Report Indicates Number of Illegal Abortions Supposedly Rising
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 23, 2008
LifeNews.com Editor
September 23, 2008
San Jose, Costa Rica (LifeNews.com) – A new report from the Costa Rica government indicates the number of illegal abortions there is supposedly on the rise. The Central American nation, like other predominantly Catholic and Hispanic nations in the region, is strongly pro-life and protects the right to life of unborn children.
The new Asociación Demográfica Costarricense (ADC) report indicates there are about 27,000 illegal abortions occurring in the country annually for women between the ages of 15 and 49.
That’s a rate of one abortion for every three lives births in the nation in 2007.
It has increased from a rate of 10.6 for every 1.000 women between the ages of 15 and 49 to 22.3 last year.
ADC official Cristian Gómez prepared the report and, according to the Inside Costa Rica web site, he said abortion presents a number of health risks for women.
He said the rise is due to a less frequent use of birth control and contraception and supposedly supports an effort to make some abortions legal.
While abortion advocates typically point to supposedly large numbers of women dying from illegal abortions as a reason to allow them, the ADC report indicates no women in Costa Rica have died from illegal abortions recently.
Costa Rica was in the news last year when abortion advocates used the case of a 9-year-old girl who became pregnant to try to promote the decriminalization of abortion internationally.
1 comment:
In the case of abortion
The Article 31st of the Costa Rica Civil Code says: ¨The existence of the individual begins at birth and is said to be alive born to all that the favors from 300 days before birth.¨
As the above mentioned article said 27,000 illegal abortions had been done in Costa Rica and this is not the final number because the way the authorities knows about the abortion is because the women get in to the hospitals with adverse consequences due by the abortion.
Costa Rica is a very conservative and catholic country and it will be very difficult to legalize abortion.
In my opinion abortion has to be legalized only to the girl or women have been raped and have to be done immediately after the event.
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