While microcephaly occurrences increase shamefully in
Brazil, “lawyers” have already shown up, insisting that abortion be kept
forbidden, if the foetus is affected with such disease.
Brazilian criminal law is one of the most repressive
in the world, similar to those of the most brutal theocracies concerning
abortion: it only allows pregnancies to be interrupted if
“there is no other way” to save the woman’s life or if pregnancy
results of rape.
Brazilian Congress, dominated by either religious
fanatics, either ignorant chauvinists, vindicates nowadays even more restrictions on abortion
rights.
Concerning abortion of anencephalic foetuses, the controversy reached the Brazilian Supreme
Court, which ruled that abortion does not violate the right to life in such cases (ADPF 54).
Microcephaly is an incurable condition which results
in either physical and mental disability, making the affected individual entirely
dependent upon someone else’s care for his/her entire life.
To find oneself pregnant of a foetus with
microencephaly is finding oneself pregnant of a child destined never to be
independant or healthy. Of a child bound
to bring emotional and financial burden on the family, especially on the
mother, limiting her ability to study, travel, enjoy professional success. All this is perfectly evitable, provided that
Science may be used on behalf of the mother and the family: if a women is allowed to chose whether to
interrupt pregnancy, whether not.
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