Pro Lifers Are Horrible People

Nicaragua votes to outlaw abortion

· Church-backed law to include 30-year jail terms
· Cross-party support for bill in run-up to election

Nicaragua last night voted to outlaw all forms of abortion, including operations to save a pregnant woman's life, after a campaign by the Catholic church.

The main political parties supported a bill establishing jail sentences of six to 30 years for women who terminate their pregnancies and doctors who perform the procedure.

The proposal was fast-tracked through parliament in the run-up to a presidential election next month, prompting accusations that it was an opportunistic vote-grabbing ploy.

The bill, if signed into law by President Enrique Bolaños, will overturn a 130-year-old policy permitting abortions in exceptional cases and put Nicaragua among several countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East, with total bans. Latin America seemed to be going the other way, with Mexico, Colombia and Chile signalling possible moves to loosen abortion laws.

This news makes me very angry and very sad at the same time, lately there has been a rising tide of misogyny and violence towards women and the religious fundies need to take away a women's right to choose, just because you make abortion illegal does not mean it is going to stop, it will just go underground, it will happen in the backstreet which will cause more deaths due to unsanitary conditions, meanwhile the wealthy will just go abroad for it.

Yet these fundie idiots who screetch about about how evil abortion is are equally preaching against contraception and proper sex education, you know perhaps if contraception was encouraged and sex education was taught better then there would be less need for abortions.

These 'Pro-lifers' don't care about preserving life, all they want to do is control a woman's body, with this act Nicaraguan women are consigned to a life of misery, danger and possibly death.

In the end abortion is a private medical matter between a woman and her doctor, it has nothing to do with you, me or the religious establishment.

And its not just going on in Nicaragua, its happening in The USA, Poland and even here in The UK. Also Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, (which is ironic when you consider 'freeing women' was one of the reasons why the UK and USA went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, now this seems to be going down the pan).

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