Nicaragua has passed a law banning all abortions, even for rape victims and women who risk dying in childbirth, in a move backed both by conservative and left wing politicians eager to win Catholic votes a week before a presidential election. The bill was passed in a 52-0 vote. Chile and El Salvador, have a similar blanket ban.
Doctors who carry out abortions on rape victims or women who could die at childbirth will face a four-to-eight-year jail sentence. The women will face the same penalty.
Do you agree with the law....or disagree?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LAK24NGTAMHLBQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/10/27/unic.xml
2006-10-30 14:41:24 · 12 answers · asked by big-brother 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Well, I disagree. Especially because there are no exceptions to save the life of the mother or rape victims. Nicaragua is already an overcrowded and poor country. Who's going to feed all of these kids? They have no welfare or adoption plans like we have in US.
This seems frightening, but if the misogynistic Christian Right had their way, it would be the same result
2006-10-30 16:18:21 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Excellent propoganda for keeping abortion legal in the US, but some of us require more facts.
What were the abortion rates before they passed this law?
What type of government does Nicaragua have?
Is there Constitutional protection against THE church controlling THE government?
You are intelligent enough to know that this question requires a great deal more information. You are counting on people making snap judgments about our country. I call this ethnocentrism.
2006-10-30 14:51:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not all the way i only agree with abortion if a woman has been raped or her life is in jeopardy...Even then it's tough.....Unfortunately men in Nicaragua and in our Latin American countries have no respect for women they use the for sex and leave them they don't care if their pregnant or in the future the child's well being so it's very very hard...
2006-10-30 14:47:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think its always a bad idea to see the world as all black or all white. There is always a gray. A woman who is pregnant because she cant keep her legs closed should not have the same rights as a woman who was raped.
2006-10-30 14:49:04 · answer #4 · answered by Jason H 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
i agree maybe people in the legislation know what they are doing. of course I'm very conservative (meaning I'm baptist) which we believe everything happens for a reason. seems maybe a little naive but not really. People will have to be more wise about their decisions there. I believe if we passed legislation here it would eventually bring down teenage and single people's child-bearing rate.
2006-10-30 14:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by rdcake 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't agree with it. Where exactly does Nicaragua rank in the scheme of things? Exactly. Let them pass whatever laws they want.
2006-10-30 15:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by Active Denial System™ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Lets just say the coat hanger lobby is dancing with joy
2006-10-30 15:56:37 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A C section for a women having trouble at child birth could solve the issue of child birth. If at the C section the child can't live, that is then up to God or whatever higher power you beleve in.
Rape is not a good reason to latter kill anotehr life.
2006-10-30 14:44:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
That is just incredible, but if it is for political reasons, then it is bound to fail.
2006-10-30 15:09:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no doubt the Catholic Church was instrumental in this.
2006-10-30 14:44:09 · answer #10 · answered by dstr 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋