{"id":46910,"date":"2014-02-28T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T12:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=46910"},"modified":"2014-03-01T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:20:35","slug":"would-personhood-make-colorado-the-next-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/would-personhood-make-colorado-the-next-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"Would personhood make Colorado the next El Salvador?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21318\" alt=\"Pregnant woman\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pregnant-woman1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pregnant-woman1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pregnant-woman1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">According to El Salvador&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/el-salvadors-supreme-court-rejects-abortion-case-points-to-personhood-of-child-209723061.html\">high court<\/a>, &#8220;the rights of the mother are not privileged over those of the unborn child (who is to be born) and vice versa.&#8221; Every person has an equal right to life. Shouldn\u2019t every country extend equal protection to all human beings?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some abortion activists don\u2019t think so. In last Friday\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/opinion\/ci_25202744\/lessons-from-el-salvador-personhood-movements\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/em>, Kathy Bougher vilified El Salvador\u2019s pro-life laws and suggested that introducing a similar equal rights approach in Colorado would create an invasive regime where women are investigated for miscarriages on a whim.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are scare tactics. The\u00a02014 <a href=\"http:\/\/avoiceforbrady.com\/\">Brady Amendment<\/a> is designed to protect pregnant women and their unborn children from criminal acts. It simply acknowledges that unborn children like 8 pound, 2 ounce Brady, who was killed by a drunk driver, deserve justice. The amendment would not seek out women who tragically experience miscarriage; rather, it would equip prosecutors to charge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/personhoodusa\/7-times-colorado-law-didnt-protect-pregnant-women-drqv\">violent criminals<\/a> who harm pregnant women and their children. Moreover, invasive police investigations for miscarriage did not occur prior to\u00a0<i>Roe v. Wade<\/i>, when abortion was illegal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even in El Salvador, only a minuscule fraction of the country\u2019s 3 million women are charged with abortion-related crimes &#8211; far fewer than would be expected if one took the Guttmacher Institute\u2019s laughably inflated estimates of illegal abortions at face value. Clearly the Salvadoran police aren&#8217;t putting out the dragnet for post-abortive women, much less women who have experienced tragic miscarriages. In reality, El Salvador fosters a culture of life where abortion is neither needed nor wanted.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, Bougher trots out the Beatriz case as her abortion advocacy\u00a0<i>coup de gr\u00e2ce<\/i>. International abortion advocacy groups exerted their cultural imperialism upon Beatriz\u2019s case in order to pressure tiny El Salvador into allowing abortion on demand. Activists like Bougher alleged that Beatriz&#8217;s life was in danger because she was diagnosed with lupus and kidney difficulties. Furthermore, they asserted that her child, who suffered from a severe brain abnormality called anencephaly, possessed no right to life.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion activists ignored expert medical testimony before the high court that Beatriz&#8217;s pregnancy posed no serious or immediate threat to her life. El Salvador <a href=\"http:\/\/personhoodeducation.org\/2013\/04\/23\/salvadorena-permite-que-se-tomen-las-medidas-de-emergencia-necesarias-para-salvar-la-vida-de-beatriz-sin-recurrir-al-aborto\/\">already permits<\/a> interventions that may risk the life of the baby to save the life of the mother. In its decision, the Salvadoran Supreme Court heeded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsalvador.com\/mwedh\/nota\/nota_completa.asp?idCat=47673&amp;idArt=7877510\">advice<\/a> of the nation\u2019s Institute of Legal Medicine, which advised against abortion and testified that &#8220;there is no medical reason to terminate the pregnancy.\u201d Even Beatriz\u2019s own doctors saw no need to carry out an abortion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsalvador.com\/mwedh\/nota\/nota_completa.asp?idCat=47673&amp;idArt=7929358\">suggesting<\/a> a c-section instead.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, doctors did\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intereconomia.com\/noticias-gaceta\/sociedad\/asociaciones-provida-aplauden-desenlace-caso-beatriz-20130604\">induce<\/a>\u00a0delivery via c-section. Beatriz recovered well, and her baby girl was given treatment similar to any other baby born prematurely. The baby did not survive because of her condition, but she was given palliative treatment with the care and dignity that every human being deserves. During an abortion, this innocent baby girl would have been violently dismembered in the womb and removed piece by piece. Is that really a preferable alternative?<\/p>\n<p>El Salvador\u2019s laws affirm the equal value and dignity of every human being. There ought not be any preferential treatment toward certain human beings at the expense of others.\u00a0Human rights &#8211; like the right to life &#8211; should be equal for all. Isn\u2019t that something that every country should strive toward?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to El Salvador&#8217;s high court, &#8220;the rights of the mother are not privileged over those of the unborn child (who is to be born) and vice versa.&#8221; Every person has an equal right to life. Shouldn\u2019t every country extend equal protection to all human beings? 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