They performed an abortion on a raped minor, but the baby was born alive | Chronic

The Women's Hospital of Santa Cruz City in Bolivia responded to a request for abortion for rape of a 14-year-old, but being 26 weeks pregnant, one more baby 39, a kilogram was born and remained alive. .

"Because there was legal support, the interruption was made, but the baby was born alive and was hospitalized", badured the medical director of the women's hospital of the city of Santa Cruz (east), Federico Urquizo, in dialogue with the newspaper El Deber.

In this country, there is a constitutional penalty confirming the practice of abortion without a court order in case of violation. The standard does not establish a limit in gestation time to terminate the pregnancy.

The hospital director said that the girl had gone to the hospital for the first time while she was 23 weeks pregnant. Members of her family then revealed that she had been raped.

According to what happened, the minor did not tell the parents that she had been raped or that she was pregnant. In addition, they did not notice the symptoms until several weeks later.

Later, they went to the hospital with a police report for child abuse and asked for a "legal termination of pregnancy". However, all the doctors presented conscientious objection letters.

"It's the first time in my life that I see this happening." The gynecologists came in a shift individually with their letters to decline. Urquizo counted.

In this way, abortion was required according to the procedure: oral and badl feeding to the teenage girl's tablets to expel the fetus, which then weighed 1,100 grams.

However, at a previous meeting, a doctor had expected that because of advanced gestation, the baby would be born alive and would be viable. That's what happened

Erwin Román, head of neonatology, explained that once informed that the baby was alive, they had to follow the protocol's instructions. "If a baby is born with a good weight and probability of life, the obligation is to attend and try to save his life."

The teenager is depressed and is still hospitalized. The newborn is in intensive care.