Turkey's ruling Justice and Development party is working on a bill to ban abortions after four weeks into the pregnancy. Before this new hopes of being a law, the current law is that termination can happen up to 10 weeks from conception, but married women need their husband's permission. When Prime minister Erdogan's statement saying that abortion was defined as murder, it ignited many protests mainly women based. Some women will go through with the pregnancy and then abandon the child later just like a 13 year old girl did. It was caught on camera that she gave birth while walking down the street and left the baby there on the cement. This caused a great uproar in most communities. Health Minister Recep Akdag said that they would even take care of babies from "rape victims." Turkey has one of the highest rate of C-sections in the world.
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I agree, if they didn't want kids they should've never done the deed. There's always adoption right?
ReplyDeleteThats a crazy story...I cant believe that she left it on the streets!
ReplyDeleteWow. A 13 year-old girl gives birth on the streets and leaves the baby. Just a normal thing.
ReplyDeleteI am happy that this problem is trying to become resolved. I can't believe that a girl would just let her own baby die on the street. It doesn't matter if the girl is just thirteen. she should be old enough to know that you can't just let a poor innocent child die. I don't understand how people could just abandon their child. If the parent is going to abandon the child, then the parent shouldn't have even had the baby in the first place, or the parent could give the child to a better home.
ReplyDeleteWhy is a year old girl giving birth in the first place?! This world is soo messed up!
ReplyDelete-Kennedi Mayes