Did an abortion ban kill this woman?

November 7, 2007

Nicaragua’s strict abortion ban may have led to this woman’s death:

Two weeks after Olga Reyes danced at her wedding, her bloated and disfigured body was laid to rest in an open coffin “” the victim, her husband and some experts say, of Nicaragua’s new no-exceptions ban on abortion.

Reyes, a 22-year-old law student, suffered an ectopic pregnancy. The fetus develops outside the uterus, cannot survive and causes bleeding that endangers the mother. But doctors seemed afraid to treat her because of the anti-abortion law, said husband Agustin Perez. By the time they took action, it was too late.

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1 What would you do November 7, 2007 at 3:12 pm: The law helped make doctors fearful, but since surgery for ectopic pregancy isn’t covered by the ban, it’s really the doctors fear of overzealous prosecution and protection of their own self-interest at the expense of the patient who needs prompt treatment.

Sort of like the doctors who would rather let patients suffer a lot of pain needlessly, than deal with an overzealous DEA. Only the cowardice is deadlier.
2 Anonymous November 7, 2007 at 7:11 pm: Interesting that the countries that ban abortion, including Iran and Iraq, are predominantly Catholic or Muslim and most are poor. If the people in these countries just eliminated any risk of pregnancy, all their problems would be solved in a generation.
3 KoKo November 10, 2007 at 3:36 am: “If the people in these countries just eliminated any risk of pregnancy, all their problems would be solved in a generation.
# posted by Anonymous : 7:11 PM”

Did the “PILL” abolish all the problems of the USA or did it just make plenty more?
4 Anonymous November 10, 2007 at 1:05 pm: so its ok to kill baby, but when the mom dies, everyone screams, how hypocritical