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Brazilian women risk life, liberty in having to seek backstreet abortions





RIO DE JANEIRO — When 40-year-old Micheline Alves decided to have an abortion six weeks into her pregnancy, she had many mixed emotions. But guilt was not among them.

The mother of two from an affluent neighborhood in São Paulo knew her decision was illegal in Brazil, and yet she believed it was the right choice for her. Moreover, she had faith in the doctor she trusted to carry out the procedure.


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Jeremiah 44:7 Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

Job 39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;

Lamentations 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.


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