Strong majority of Brazilians reject abortion for women infected with Zika virus
By Dave Andrusko
Brazil
is, if not the epicenter of the Zika virus, certainly a country with
more than its fair share of exposure to the virus which has been
associated with, but not proven to cause microcephaly, a condition in
which babies are born with undersized heads with subsequent health
problems.The usual pro-abortion forces are pushing to change protective abortion laws in Latin America. For example, earlier this month, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad AL Hussein said, “Laws and policies that restrict [a woman’s] access to these [reproductive health] services must be urgently reviewed in line with human rights obligations in order to ensure the right to health for all in practice.”
But for the second time, a poll shows a majority of Brazilians opposing abortion for women infected with the Zika virus, according to Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper which was picked up by CNSNews.com.
Indeed the margins are even greater than those NRL News Today reported on March 1.
According to CNSNews’s Lauretta Brown, in the survey, taken last week,
58 percent of Brazilians said
that pregnant women infected with the Zika virus should not be able to
have an abortion, while 32 percent thought the woman should have the
option of an abortion, and 10 percent said they had no opinion.
Additionally, even when a case of
microcephaly was confirmed, 51 percent of those interviewed still said
they were against changing Brazil’s strict anti-abortion laws, and 39
percent agreed with a change in the law for such circumstances.
2,678 people in 171 municipalities across the country were surveyed from February 24-25. There is a very small margin of error—2%.
Source: NRLC News
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