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El Salvador: Doctors Can Induce Birth to Save Woman, Official Says El Salvador: Doctors Can Induce Birth to Save Woman, Official Says
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A 22-year-old woman who was denied an abortion by El Salvador’s Supreme Court can terminate her pregnancy at the first sign of danger, the health minister, María Isabel Rodríguez, said Thursday. “At this point, the interruption of the pregnancy is no longer an abortion,” Ms. Rodríguez said, “it is an induced birth.” Doctors say the woman, known only as Beatriz, faces serious illness and even death if her pregnancy continues because she has lupus and related complications and is carrying a fetus with a severe birth defect and almost no chance of surviving. Now in her 26th week of pregnancy, she could be induced to have either an abdominal or vaginal birth, Ms. Rodríguez said, “because the important thing is saving Beatriz’s life.” A 22-year-old woman who was denied an abortion by El Salvador’s Supreme Court can terminate her pregnancy at the first sign of danger, the health minister, María Isabel Rodríguez, said Thursday. “At this point, the interruption of the pregnancy is no longer an abortion,” Ms. Rodríguez said, “it is an induced birth.” Doctors say that the woman, known only as Beatriz, is carrying a fetus with a severe birth defect and almost no chance of surviving, and that she faces serious health risks if her pregnancy continues because she has lupus and related complications. After the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights called on the government to  “immediately adopt the necessary measures to protect the life, personal integrity and health” of Beatriz. Ms. Rodríguez said the woman could be induced to have either an abdominal or vaginal birth “because the important thing is saving Beatriz’s life.”