International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1993 Jun 6-11; 9: 124 (abstract no. WS-D21-5).
The right to decide when and how to reproduce are essential basic human rights for women and men. That means not only the possibility to have children but also to decide not to have them. These rights are not everywhere accepted or recognized in order to allow individual or personal decisions as the women's right to have access to legal abortions. In some countries due to religious and other restrictions, abortion is illegal. In those countries as in many of the Latin America countries, abortion is the principal cause of high maternal mortality rates. Illegality of abortion increases the maternal mortality rate, specially in developing countries where poor women couldn't pay for safe and clean abortions. So that poor women do abortions in dangerous ways. But now in the AIDS era, HIV positive women are generally oblige by the society in order to have no children. Those HIV positive women, they are not entitled to decide freely, so their reproductive rights are not ensured. Why? Because the children could be positive. This new hypocrisy was another attempt to women's rights in the AIDS ERA. I analyse what happens in some Latin American countries and what are social, human and mortality consequences.
Publication Types:
Keywords:
- Abortion, Legal
- Child
- Developing Countries
- Female
- Human Rights
- Humans
- Latin America
- Male
- Maternal Mortality
- Pregnancy
- Reproductive Rights
- surgery
Other ID:
UI: 102202746
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