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Salvadoran Court Denies Abortion to Ailing Woman (May 30, 2013)
A 22-year-old woman who was denied an abortion by El Salvador's Supreme Court can terminate her pregnancy at the first sign of danger, the health minister, María Isabel Rodríguez, said Thursday. "At this point, the interruption of the pregnancy is no longer an abortion," Ms. Rodríguez said, "it is an induced birth." Doctors say the woman, known only as Beatriz, faces serious illness and even death if her pregnancy continues because she has lupus and related complications and is carrying a fetus with a severe birth defect and almost no chance of surviving. Now in her 26th week of pregnancy, she could be induced to have either an abdominal or vaginal birth, Ms. Rodríguez said, "because the important thing is saving Beatriz's life."
31 May, 2013
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