Yeah, the doctor called the cops. Here the Hippocratic oath states that a person is a person from conception and requires would be doctors to swear to defend life from conception on. But everyone eventually got slaps on the wrist because a breach of confidentiality is against the rules for doctors and the cops can’t actually arrest girls/women who aborted-they can only arrest doctors providing abortions. What happens everyday is different, though. I really got the concept of womens’ bodies being political footballs when I moved here, where abortion is decriminalized kinda like personal use pot in some cities-it still leaves all the power to arrest or not in other people’s hands and every administration has to change the rules up.
So, the supreme court has ruled clearly that a pregnant person can get a non-punishable abortion in cases of rape, incest, grave health risk, etc. and that the public hospitals must provide those abortions. But here again is where this fine line on discrimination comes into play-if an individual doctor doesn’t want to provide the abortions on religious grounds or wants to narc on patients. It’s a tough call when girls are dying left right and center from homemade abortions and the health care provider is in a position of power and prestige over the girls (usually poor girls and women, of course the middle class just pay exorbitant fees for abortions in doctor’s offices).
Another case that sparked outrage: a mother of 2 was rescued from a sex trafficking ring where she had been held and pimped out to clients. She got pregnant during captivity. Upon release she petitioned the government for what was to be the first ever real case of someone actually getting one of those supposedly constitutionally-guaranteed abortions. She was still living in a shelter away from her family because she was going to testify against her captors and her two small children didn’t know any details-just that their mother was back now after being away and couldn’t come home yet but would soon. So, while in the hospital supposedly going to get the abortion procedure which has been a right since the 1920s yet never actually worked out in practice, not only was she bounced around because the doctors refused to operate, but someone on the hospital’s staff shared her real name and home address with the hospital chaplain (a catholic priest, but in Argentina the priests who attend to hospitals are paid by the state in a sweetheart deal penned between the Vatican and the last military dictatorship) who proceeded to her home address to urge her not to kill her unborn baby. Of course she was in hiding, but this was a very dangerous situation as her captors then knew where her kids lived; they of course finding out the hard way that their mom had been trafficked and was having an abortion.
It’s brutal, but in fact Argentina is one of the ‘moderates’ in Latin America on this-go to El Salvador or Chile for hard liners, where even if a child raped by her father is going to die from delivery, they make her have the baby. It’s the catholic church, but could very well be other religions doing the same things in other countries.
To try to pedal back towards the conversation on discrimination-who is the oppressed here? The catholic doctor being forced by her job to look the other way when someone is aborting? But if the doctor’s religion is the friggin’ Vatican, in other words the party with all the money and political clout, and real working class girls with no fancy pants popes sitting on golden thrones backing them up are dying?
Re: MRA groups and anti-abortion rabblerousing. Most are actually fathers’ rights groups (i.e. they lost custody and want the kids back; have teams of lawyers claiming Woody Allen syndrome, yadda yadda). So there is overlap with the anti-abortion movement because they loves the childz and all that. In strictly journalistic terms, it is bullshit because I couldn’t find any primary sources that sparse out the father’s righters from the religious groups, and ‘but I definitely remember some tee shirts’ doesn’t cut it as a source. Best I could come up with is a news article from the last Women’s Conference with photos where you can see a couple clashes with Cristo Rey/Opus Dei and a bus full of middle aged ladies on their way back home after the convention which was attacked by rock-throwing locals, but again they were more closely catholic affiliated, whether any of the fathers righters were with them or not.
