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Beatriz wants to live. A 22-year-old Salvadoran from a poor, rural community, Beatriz (a pseudonym to protect privacy) suffers from chronic and severe medical conditions. She is married and the mother of an infant. And she is roughly 18 weeks pregnant with an anencephalic fetus, a fetus without a brain that has no chance of survival after birth. She has lupus, aggravated by lupus nephritis (a kidney malfunction), which makes it very dangerous for her to be pregnant. Beatriz is now at high risk of dying as a result of her current pregnancy and needs an abortion to save her life. Doctors at the Maternity Hospital determined that the pregnancy is non-viable and life-threatening, and Beatriz requested that Salvadoran medical personnel perform an abortion, but a 1998 law in El Salvador prohibits all abortions, without exception.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...-viable-fetus/



I am so angry. I used to live in this country, and I was anti-abortion until that point. When I saw the realities of illegal abortion. So much respecting "life."



If a lot of Republicans had their way, women would be facing this same life threatening dogma right here in the U.S.



Here's a petition being sent to the president and supreme court of El Salvador. Its not much, but it might help.



http://action.rhrealitycheck.org/pag...e-beatriz-life

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A senior congressional aide privy to the Boston Marathon terror investigation confirmed Saturday that the FBI had been warned about alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev as far back as 2011, when his apparently suspicious activities prompted Russian authorities keeping close surveillance on militant Islamic groups in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union to contact US counterterrorism officials about him. The 26-year-old suspected terrorist, who was killed in a firefight with police in Watertown early Friday morning, traveled to Russia from Boston several times in recent years, according to multiple US officials who have reviewed his passport file - including an extended stay in 2012.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201...VyO/story.html



Way to go, FBI.

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After raising a voice to her high school's damaging abstinence-only policies, one West Virginia senior says she was threatened with future-imperiling punishment by her principal. George Washington High School student body vice president Katelyn Campbell told The Charleston Gazette she felt her fellow students should be better informed about birth control, given that West Virginia "has the ninth highest pregnancy rate in the U.S." "With the policy at GW, under [Principal] George Aulenbacher, information about birth control and sex education has been suppressed," Campbell is quoted as saying. "Our nurse wasn't allowed to talk about where you can get birth control for free in the city of Charleston." Campbell's last straw was what she called a "slut-shaming abstinence assembly" led by conservative speaker Pam Stenzel. Quote: From ThinkProgress: Stenzel has a long history of using inflammatory rhetoric to convince young people that they will face dire consequences for becoming sexually active. At GW's assembly, Stenzel allegedly told students that "if you take birth control, your mother probably hates you" and "I could look at any one of you in the eyes right now and tell if you're going to be promiscuous." She also asserted that condoms aren't safe, and every instance of sexual contact will lead to a sexually transmitted infection. Campbell took it upon herself to contact the ACLU and reach out to the media to voice her objections to the event. Aulenbacher, Campbell said, did not take kindly to her actions, ordering her to come to his office, where he threatened to call Wellesley College, which had already accepted Campbell, and tell them she has "bad character." "He threatened me and my future in order to put forth his own personal agenda and make teachers and students feel they cant speak up because of fear of retaliation," Campbell told the Gazette. Unfortunately for Aulenbacher, his plan backfired rather magnificently.

http://gawker.com/5994960/hs-princip...?post=58904516



You go girl :boogie

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