Thaindian News

April 24, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Now, this is a genuinely saddening piece of news from innumerable angles. A pregnant 10-year-old girl, who, purportedly, was the victim of sexual violation by her stepfather, has become the most recent lightning rod in the Mexican nation’s impassioned abortion debate.

The girl’s stepfather has been detained. However, campaigners on both sides of the divide have declared that their conflict is just commencing.

Adriana Ortiz-Ortega is a canvasser at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. She has elucidated that

this girl is much more than a one-off case. Adriana is a person, who has inscribed two tomes on abortion in Mexico. She has revealed that there is much more power now from traditionalist groups that are attempting to thwart the institutionalization of abortion nationally.

Abortion is officially authorized in Mexico’s capital city, but forbidden or considerably controlled in most of the country’s provinces. The pregnant girl’s home state of Quintana Roo, on the Yucatan peninsula, permits abortion in cases of rape during the initial 90 days of the pregnancy. But the 10-year-old girl in question is at 17½ weeks, virtually a month past that limit.

Advocacy associations are petitioning the Mexican federal bureaucrats and the United Nations to scrutinize Quintana Roo’s treatment of the matter. These associations have declared that the Mexican bureaucrats have not appropriately communicated to her about her rights.

Pro-abortion associations have enunciated that this case symbolizes the necessity of unambiguous legislations on abortion that supply the pregnant victims of rape the right to annul their pregnancy. This case is also a gloomy reflection of the helplessness of females on being confronted by the outmoded conceptions on abortion that exist in the constitutions of several predominantly Catholic countries of Latin America.