The extension of women’s rights…
March 29th, 2007 by timelady
…is the basic principle of all social progress.
From Reproductive Rights, via Feministing:
” Two months pregnant and bleeding, Yanira Then says she went to a clinic in her low-income Santo Domingo neighborhood, where her doctor said she had suffered a miscarriage.
Then was still in her hospital gown that February morning when her doctor’s office was stormed by police, prosecutors and television news cameras. Accused of having had an abortion, Then, a 27-year-old law student, was arrested along with two other patients, the nurses and her physician.
She faces 3 to 10 years in prison. The doctor faces 50.”
A miscarriage is a traumatic enough event. This, this is just piling vile abuse of human rights on top. Vile, wrong, apalling…
Bruce Says
Awful. Just awful.
The old “misconstrue-miscarriage-as-abortion-to-abuse-for-political-gain” tactic. Tony Abbott is probably taking notes…
More light needs to be shined on this kind of BS.
Apr 3rd, 2007 at 10:28 pm