It will take our collective knowledge, experience, energy and expertise to hold governments accountable for their roles in violating women’s and girls’ rights to health.
In Nicaragua, after a total ban on abortion was passed, a woman with an ectopic pregnancy was allowed to languis in a hospital, waiting for her fallopian tube to rupture before a doctor agreed to operate even though there was no doubt regarding the outcome of her pregnancy. This is the world that Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) would like to bring to America with the passage of H.R. 358, the Let Women Die Act of 2011.
The human rights community understands that criminal and other restrictions on abortion are unacceptable and reflect a radical disregard for women's lives.
Hermain Cain doesn't think abortion should be legal, but he also thinks the government should "stay out of it," and that abortion should be criminal, but that you should have a choice to break the law. In a way, it all makes sense.
Three news segments this week: Mitt Romney and the confusing story of banning the birth control pill, Rick Santorum is not confused about his hatred of contraception, and Herman Cain doesn't know what to think about abortion rights.
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