http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6470403.stm
BBC news reported today on a woman in Poland who was awarded about $33,000 by the European Court of Human Rights is Strasbourg because she had been denied an abortion. Alicja Tysiac became pregnant in 2000 with her third child. She was told by three eye specialists that having the baby could damage her eyesight, but none of them would sign off on her having an abortion. Huh???
In Poland, a very Catholic country, abortion is illegal except in cases where the mother or the unborn child's health and/or life is at risk. Ok fine, I am pro-choice regardless but I can live with this. At least they have the sense to take that into account. Many other countries, including Chile and El Salvador... abortion is illegal period. Screw the mother who might die. Sure, she may have other children to care for, but that's ok. Sigh.
Anyway, so this Polish woman had the baby and suffered a retinal haemorrhage and may end up going blind. She has to wear what we tend to call "coke bottle" glasses, she is a single mother of three, and can barely see. Lucky for her, she hat the European Court of Human rights on her side. They ruled that Poland had violated her human rights. Who knows if she'll actually get the money, and it probably won't save her eyesight, anyway.
Look... you don't have to approve of abortion. That's fine. I would never, ever tell you that your opinion is wrong. But I will say that it should be a choice- a personal, PRIVATE choice. No government should have the right to say, well you can't have one so deal with the reprocussions.
See this link for International laws on abortion: http://www.medicalabortionconsortium.org/law-policy/
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