Nicaragua’s Culture of Misogyny October 27, 2006 Jill The Nicagraguan abortion ban shouldn’t come as a surprise. Liza explains.
One of the great lies of both the Nicaraguan revolution has always been the role of women. They joined to be soldiers, and ended up as camp cooks. Or if they got pregnant, were expected to drop out and return to the home and kitchen.
While I was in Honduras this past spring a 19-year-old woman in Tegucigalpa was hospitalized and arrested (and eventually convicted) after she swallowed 9 pills of milfesteprone in an attempt to terminate a pregnancy. She had an 18-month-old daughter and her boyfriend had just left her, leaving her with no means of support. It was heartbreaking. I used to have a friend (an ex-Sandanista, interestingly) who worked in a Nicaraguan orphanage, and she said the vast majority of the children there had living parents who couldn’t support them. I remember this stuff when pro- and anti- choice politics get heated in the US. These are the stakes, right here.
Read the comments here, for some really scary opinions. There are Americans who think 30 years in prison is perfectly okay for a miscarriage.