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

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[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]

I didn't know you lived here in Brazil, OP!

Anyways, great news, tbh. Marco Aurelio Mello spoke the truth.

[lemonsalt]

I do! Always nice to find fellow Brazilians here on _P.

He did! I still can't believe we had two judges who voted against this tbh.

[tabaqui]

It's nice when compassion wins over dogma.