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Brazil: “Abortion is a Right, not a Wrong”

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 @ 22:22 UTC

by Daniel Duende

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Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Children, Cyber-Activism, Gender, Health, Human Rights, Law, Racism
Languages:: Portuguese

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pt:: Brasil: O aborto é um direito, não um crime...

Sapataria [Pt], a Brazilian blog about LGBT and women's rights, posts pictures of a recent protest promoted by gender-issues-related groups against the legal views on abortion in Brazil, and shares their two-cents on the issue: “In many countries, the criminalization of abortion afects directly the poor women, most of them with black skin, who have almost no access to health services and contraceptive methods. […] It's an attempt against the dignity and autonomy of these women, most of them poor, with no access to juridical or psychological suport.”

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