{"id":1020,"date":"2015-05-11T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:30:22","slug":"why-is-there-a-debate-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Why is there a debate about this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pregnant, 10-year old Paraguayan girl was raped and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/10\/americas\/paraguay-girl-rape-pregnancy\/\" target=\"_blank\">unable to acquire an abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A man in Paraguay accused of raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter and getting her pregnant was arrested Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Benitez Gilberto Zarate, 42, had fled in the wake of the accusation against him. But he denied any wrongdoing to police and local media, and has demanded a DNA test on the unborn child to back up his claim.<\/p>\n<p>An international rights group is pressing the Paraguayan government to allow an abortion for the girl &#8212; a procedure that health officials in the South American country have so far blocked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sigh.  Paraguay is a strongly Catholic country, and abortions make Jesus sad, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in most such cases, the doctors eventually declare a medical emergency, perform a Caesarean, and preserve the child&#8217;s life; it is quite likely that her life will be protected, albeit underhandedly, and with potentially lifelong consequences.<\/p>\n<p>It is a disgrace that ancient superstitions even bear upon such a vital matter.  The sooner humanity is done with religion, the better off we all will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pregnant, 10-year old Paraguayan girl was raped and is unable to acquire an abortion. A man in Paraguay accused of raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter and getting her pregnant was arrested Saturday, police said. Benitez Gilberto Zarate, 42, had fled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}