Professor forced into hiding by death threats over Brazil abortion hearing

[Judi Lynn]

Professor forced into hiding by death threats over Brazil abortion hearing
Campaigner involved in case that could lead to legal abortion in first 12 weeks of pregnancy enters protection programme

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
@domphillips
Thu 2 Aug 2018 02.00 EDT

Days before a Brazilian supreme court hearing on a move that could eventually decriminalise abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a leading feminist campaigner is in hiding after receiving death threats.

Debora Diniz, a professor of anthropology at the University of Brasília, who helped bring the legal action with bioethics institute Anis, is sequestered in an unknown location but will still appear at the two-day hearing, which starts on Friday.

“We are in a new moment,” Diniz, who will be escorted by police at the trial, told the Guardian by phone. “It could change the criminalisation of abortion in the country, and that is why it is so important.”

Abortion is banned in Brazil unless a woman has been raped, her life is in danger, or the foetus has anencephaly, a fatal brain disorder. Unsafe abortions leave in Brazil hospitalised annually and cause 200 deaths.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/02/professor-forced-into-hiding-by-death-threats-over-brazil-abortion-hearing

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142124765

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Zealots amoung the male population

is expected, it is the women who "get in line" that disturbs me. I support birth control, as the method of choice.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Those women are living at odds with their own consciences, at war with their better selves.

There's such a clear case for them not agitating in favor of making other women's lives so much more painful, and bringing suffering upon children who will come to wish they had never been born after living too many long years as horrendous burdens on women who can't afford the emotional, psychological, material cost of raising a child alone.

Have heard, after Trump waddled into the White House, that the Republicans fully intend to not only destroy womens' rights, but to also ban birth control availability altogether. Somehow this doesn't surprise me.

They believe if a women gets #%!#$@#*?!, she damned well had better stay that way.

[saidsimplesimon]

3. Thank you Judi, another voice in the wilderness

of ignorance is so much appreciated.