Niña de 11 años embarazada que no quiere abortar genera polémica➝http://t.co/uPBo6NEKcC [1] #Aborto [2] #Embarazo [3] #Uruguay [4]
— Periódico La Tribuna (@PLaTribunaFunza) May 8, 2015 [5]
Pregnant 11-year-old who refused to abort creates controversy.
We wrote [6] recently about about a 10-year-old pregnant girl from Paraguay who was allegedly raped by her stepfather and who was unable to have an abortion because of legal limitations in the country. Now, in Uruguay, where abortion is legal [7] in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, the case of a pregnant 11-year-old who refused to have one has shocked the country.
This girl, who has been said to have an intellectual disability, was raped by the 41-year-old grandfather of her half-sister. This man is now in custody and will be prosecuted for rape, Uruguayan officials told Agence France-Presse [8].
Family members, doctors, social organizations, and the media have encouraged the girl to terminate the pregnancy. They have even pressured the government to try and force her to go through with it, according to Pangea Today. [9] The response was, however, not favorable to them:
“There is no risk for the life of the child or baby, so we cannot force her to have an abortion,” the director of INAU, Monica Silva, said.