Esperanza Martínez (politician)
Esperanza Martínez was the Paraguayan Minister of Public Health and Social Welfare under President Fernando Lugo.[1] She belongs to the Participación Ciudadana party.
She is an advocate of liberalizing implementation of laws regarding abortion in Paraguay to help a pregnant 10-year-old who was raped by her stepfather, complaining that to those who opposed the treatment, the unnamed girl "became a uterus. She became a birth canal."[2]
References
- ↑ CIA World Leaders
- ↑ "Paraguay senator says pregnant 10-year-old denied abortion 'became a uterus'". Associated Press. The Guardian. 10 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
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