The child was found to be 21 weeks pregnant when she was taken to hospital with stomach pain.
Current legislation allows terminations in the event of rape or danger to the mother’s health, but in conservative Salta province, where the girl lives, abortion in case of rape is permitted only during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
According to authorities in that province, the girl and her mother declined an abortion in a letter — but feminist activist Mariana Carvajal has expressed doubts about that version of events.
“The family is terrified. They told the mother than an abortion was very risky. What we don’t know, is what the girl thinks. An abortion is still possible,” Carvajal, founder of the feminist NiUnaMenos movement against gender-based violence, told AFP.
Carvajal added the child was first hospitalized in February, during the first 12 weeks of her pregnancy, but…
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