BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Rape victims have a right to abortion under Argentine
law, but the nation's Supreme Court was forced to intervene this week to
ensure that a woman who says she was kidnapped, forced into
prostitution and raped could end her pregnancy.
The case has divided the public and sparked lawsuits in Buenos
Aires, one of Latin America's most socially liberal cities where the
mayor and opposition lawmakers are fighting over what limits if any
should be placed on the procedure.
Abortion is banned in much of Latin America, home to about half the world's Roman Catholics. Argentina is among the countries that allow abortions in cases of rape or when a woman's health is in danger.
The recent controversy began when Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri(above left photo) announced that the city's first legal abortion under a new regulation governing the procedure in rape cases would be carried out on Tuesday.But a civil court judge blocked the abortion at the last minute at the request of a private group.
Anti-abortion activists identified the woman and protested outside her home last week and then again at the hospital where she was to have the abortion. The woman's lawyer, Pablo Vicente, said the hospital chaplain was among the protesters.
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