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Gagged in Mexico

By Michelle Wojcik

Imagine being a young girl in Mexico and you get raped by your father. This situation should be hard enough to imagine, but to add on to your problem, you realize that you are pregnant. You know that you don't want the baby so you plan on aborting it. The laws are very strict in Mexico when dealing with abortion and you know this. Since this is a case of rape, it states in the law that it is legal for you to abort the fetus. One problem, when you go to get the abortion, no doctor will do it in fear of being prosecuted by the government. You think to yourself that this shouldn't be happening because the law clearly states that this is a legal thing to do, but in Mexico, even f it is a law, doctors still get threatened and prosecuted by the government for performing abortions all the time.
In Mexico, they have their own abortion laws, but they rely heavily on family planning help money from the United States. One problem…President......

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