El Salvador law encodes religious human sacrifice

[RainDog]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/el-salvador-denies-a-womans-right-to-life/

So, it looks like El Salvador is going to go ahead and murder-through-neglect a 22-year-old woman who needs an abortion to live. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I’m not. The only way this is surprising is if you believe that “pro-life” policies have anything to do with life. This was entirely predictable, if you correctly believe that opposition to abortion is rooted in a belief that women should give birth whether they like it or not—or die trying. This woman is a human sacrifice made by the government of El Salvador to demonstrate their fealty to the belief that women are subhuman baby factories who don’t deserve rights.

The woman in question, who is being called Beatriz by the press, is suffering from lupus and kidney disease that will likely kill her if she gives birth, and her fetus doesn’t have a brain, meaning that it will not survive if brought to term. If/when she passes, she wil leave behind a young son and a husband.

When I say “human sacrifice”, I am not exaggerating. The Catholic Church has responded to the surge of feminist energy around the world in no small part by doubling down on their denunciations of contraception and abortion, and making it clear that women should put being subservient baby-makers over every other consideration, even their own basic survival. In fact, there’s a lot of romanticizing of women who die in childbirth, to the point where it’s treated like it’s the most awesome thing you can do as a woman. At least one woman I know of has been sainted for dying rather than choosing abortion, and anti-choicers frequently spread slobberingly worshipful propaganda exalting death in childbirth as the best thing that ever happened. (Here’s a typical example.) The misogynist longing for female death isn’t even really subtextual at this point, but right there on the surface. And if you won’t choose death, well, they’ll choose it for you.

All of this is why it’s really just so, so disingenuous for a bunch of death eaters like the hardcore Catholics to claim that pro-choicers are pushing a “culture of death”. Nothing is more pro-life than the belief that women’s lives matter, independent of their fertility.

Barbaric religious beliefs have no place in modern societies.

[RainDog]

1. kick n/t

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

This is one of the most sickening things I have heard of in a long time. It is absolutely barbaric. I am completely disgusted!

[Ohio Joe]

3. Monsters...

They are among us.

[RainDog]

4. They are now being forced to uphold human rights for women.

via Texas4Obama

UPDATE
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the highest human rights courts in the Americas, has ordered El Salvador to provide Beatriz with the care that will save her life. This is the first case on abortion that the court has ever considered. As RH Reality Check reports, since El Salvador is a member state of the Organization of American States and a signatory of the American Convention on Human Rights, its government is obligated to comply with the Inter-American Court’s order — and has until June 7 to provide a report that proves that it’s doing so.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/30/2077371/beatriz-denied-life-saving-abortion/

[Le Taz Hot]

5. Money isn't the root of all evil,

religion is. This death is completely preventable. FUCK THE POPE! (Yeah, I know, this is headed for the dustbin but I don't give a shit.)