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.
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 it had not developed a brain, a condition incompatible with life outside the womb.
Today, November 25, 2024, as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the green tide advances in our country by decriminalizing abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation in the State of Mexico.
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.
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