United Nations Human Rights"In 2001, a 17-year-old Peruvian girl, named K.L., was 14 weeks pregnant when doctors at the public hospital in Lima diagnosed the foetus with anencephaly. Anencephaly is a fatal birth defect, where the foetus lacks most or all of the forebrain. Doctors told her that continuing the pregnancy would put her life and health at risk. She was recommended to have an abortion.
In
2001, a 17-year-old Peruvian girl, named K.L., was 14 weeks pregnant
when doctors at the public hospital in Lima diagnosed the foetus with
anencephaly. Anencephaly is a fatal birth defect, where the foetus lacks
most or all of the forebrain. Doctors told her that continuing the
pregnancy would put her life and health at risk. She was recommended to
have an abortion. - See more at:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/PeruAbortionCompensation.aspx#sthash.xQhHzDlJ.dpuf
In
2001, a 17-year-old Peruvian girl, named K.L., was 14 weeks pregnant
when doctors at the public hospital in Lima diagnosed the foetus with
anencephaly. Anencephaly is a fatal birth defect, where the foetus lacks
most or all of the forebrain. Doctors told her that continuing the
pregnancy would put her life and health at risk. She was recommended to
have an abortion.
Abortion
was legal in Peru for such reasons, but the hospital refused
termination on the grounds that the State had not provided clear
regulations for providing the service.
- See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/PeruAbortionCompensation.aspx#sthash.xQhHzDlJ.dpuf
Abortion
was legal in Peru for such reasons, but the hospital refused
termination on the grounds that the State had not provided clear
regulations for providing the service.- See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/PeruAbortionCompensation.aspx#sthash.xQhHzDlJ.dpuf
In
2001, a 17-year-old Peruvian girl, named K.L., was 14 weeks pregnant
when doctors at the public hospital in Lima diagnosed the foetus with
anencephaly. Anencephaly is a fatal birth defect, where the foetus lacks
most or all of the forebrain. Doctors told her that continuing the
pregnancy would put her life and health at risk. She was recommended to
have an abortion.
Abortion
was legal in Peru for such reasons, but the hospital refused
termination on the grounds that the State had not provided clear
regulations for providing the service.
- See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/PeruAbortionCompensation.aspx#sthash.xQhHzDlJ.dpuf
Abortion was legal in Peru for such
reasons, but the hospital refused termination on the grounds that the State had
not provided clear regulations for providing the service. K.L. was forced to
carry the pregnancy to full term and breast feed the baby for the four days
that it lived. It was a decision that went on to have serious mental and
physical consequences on her health.
Abortion
was legal in Peru for such reasons, but the hospital refused
termination on the grounds that the State had not provided clear
regulations for providing the service.- See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/PeruAbortionCompensation.aspx#sthash.xQhHzDlJ.dpuf
A complaint was filed with the UN
Human Rights Committee, stating that by denying K.L. access to a legal medical
procedure her human rights were violated. The Committee agreed, and recommended
that Peru pay compensation to K.L. This was 2005.
Now, nearly a decade later, the
Peruvian government has agreed to pay compensation.
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