El Salvador Supreme Court Puts Out Abortion Fire

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | May 31, 2013

The press is full of reports of a 22yr old woman in El Salvador who has lupus and is carrying an anacephalic child. The Supreme Court of El Salvador declined to issue an order allowing an abortion, saying that the unborn child’s right to life cannot be arbitrarily denied.

The court concluded that doctors had been able to contain the Lupus and did not find any risk to the life of Beatriz (the pseudonym under which the pregnant woman is known). The pregnancy is now 26 weeks along, and apparently the ministry of health of El Salvador has decided to carry out a C-section and deliver the baby prematurely instead. Perhaps it is a gesture to placate the militant abortion groups that have been waging a month long campaign against the Catholic Church in the country. Amnesty International, IPPF, and others have led the charge. Even the regional UN coordinator has petitioned the government to allow “Beatriz” to have an abortion. They hoped to shake things up in Ele Salvador, and instead have been dealt a devastating blow. Not only is beatriz not getting an abortion, she is getting a C-section to deliver the baby.

An interesting interview on NPR with a NY Times reporter suggests that had the C-section option not been available to Beatriz she would have been flown to the USA with a humanitarian visa. Apparently several US hospitals are willing to kill Beatriz’s baby as an act of charity — it goes to show how desperate abortion supporters are to make the case for abortion. It also shows how barbaric abortion is. The same baby that can survive (were it not for anancephaly) outside the womb at 26 weeks in Nicaragua could be killed in the USA for no reason at all.

I have yet to review the Supreme Court ruling, and look forward to doing so soon. This pro-life victory should be added to Supreme Court victories in Chile, Peru and Mexico.

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