El Salvador, December 20, 2024. “I just want to live,” Beatriz said 11 years ago. Beatriz was a young mother of a small child, sick with lupus and living in poverty. In 2013 she faced a second high-risk pregnancy, in which the fetus was diagnosed as having anencephaly, meaning that it had not developed a brain, a condition incompatible with life outside the womb.
Did you know that there is actually no evidence that induced abortion affects your mental health? On the contrary, stigma, social prejudice and lack of access to abortion have been found to be factors that can trigger emotional distress in some people who terminate their pregnancies.
“We all love someone who has had an abortion. It is with them in mind that today we are making history and leaving a legacy,” said María Antonieta Alcalde Castro, director of Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean, at the beginning of the livestream, which was transmitted uninterrupted for 24 hours from Friday, September 6 to Saturday, September 7, starting at 11 a.m. (Mexico City time).
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