Brazil lifts ban on aborting brain-damaged fetuses

[lemonsalt]

Brazil lifts ban on aborting brain-damaged fetuses

(Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday voted to legalize abortions of severely brain-damaged fetuses, loosening the law in the world's biggest Catholic country and a region where the spread of evangelical denominations in recent decades has maintained fierce opposition to abortion rights

Comments

[starsinshapes]

I should not have googled anencephaly. Is anencephaly something that happens in high rates/frequency in brazil?

[lemonsalt]

The frquency is 1 in every 700-1000 pregancies, but I don't think the rate is higher in Brazil than in the rest of the world. The reason they chose this particularly is because there is 0 chance of the fetus surviving,

[lemonsalt]

I didn't know that, thanks for the info!

[margerydaw_s2]

Yikes! :/

[starsinshapes]

Thanks for the info! I was wondering why this anti-ban singled out this.

[lemonsalt]

I was wondering why this anti-ban singled out this.

I'm still sure it has more to do with the fact that there is 0 chance of the fetus surviving.