'Cruel injustice': Caesarean for 11-year-old rape victim who requested abortion
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According to human rights group Amnesty International, authorities placed “obstacle after obstacle” following the girl’s request to have an abortion.
“Forcing the girl to carry her forced pregnancy to term, even when this put her life in danger, is a cruel injustice that has inflicted such psychological and physical harm on the child it could amount to torture under international law,” Erika-Guevara Rosas, Amnesty’s Americas director, said on Thursday.
The women’s rights groups CLADEM and local rights group ANDHES had filed a petition to a judge in Tucuman calling on the state to respect the rights and wishes of the girl to have an abortion.
“Incredible the delay in care, now the Argentinian state must guarantee rehabilitation and integral repair to damage (caused),” tweeted CLADEM on Wednesday.
Reuters
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