Mexico women activists demand safe abortion

Source: IANS/Irish Sun

Mexico women activists demand safe abortion
Irish Sun
Sunday 29th May, 2011
(IANS)

Activists from more than 40 civil organisations protested in Mexico City to demand that the federal government permit abortion nationwide as a woman's right to decide about her own body.

'Deciding is not a crime, it is a right...we're not reproduction machines, we're women with the right to decide' were some of the slogans chanted by the close to 100 women protesting outside the federal health ministry.

Federal law states that interrupting a pregnancy is legal only if the mother's life is in danger, if the foetus is deformed or if the pregnancy was caused by rape or an unauthorised artificial insemination.

If none of those conditions exist, abortion can bring penalties for the woman who authorises it and the doctor who performs it, except in the Mexican capital, governed by the left, where abortion is allowed up to the 12th week of gestation, a procedure that was legalized in 2007 and to which more than 54,000 women have had recourse since then.



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and the people could afford to travel to the capital. However, it's a struggling nation that already has enough to worry about. Especially the citizens. They don't need to be forced to have a child they can't afford when they are struggling to feed the mouths they already have to feed.

Jesus. As a man, I will never understand why other men think they know what's best for women. Just doesn't make sense. Sure, they might have an understanding of how things work. But at the end of the day, it's none of their business.

of control over women -- and that's what it is about.

Forcing women to have children serves a number of purposes --

In fact, it was shocking that the previous Pope actually went before the Italian

Parliament to argue that the government "should make Italian women have more children" -- !!

Did he cite the church's love for children -- or argue for assistance for families or women?

No -- he argued the need for labor for economic growth.


But for patriarchy, it is about control and domination -- and we should all question that

more often.

While lesser males are also oppressed by patriarchy control and domination over females still

seems to be a selling point for some.




"Childbirth is a creative disability" -- Betty Friedan

and organized patriarchal religion --

that's a huge threat to our current system!

women to become 'octomoms', or having as many children as possible; how this relates to spirituality is never explained, but that's their excuse.