Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: Deporting children who are rape victims

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Deporting children who are rape victims

Elena from Honduras

Young girls are raped by gang members and forced to work for them--but when they flee with their family to the US, they are deported back to their home countries.

Read this heart-breaking report by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/opinion/sunday/were-helping-deport-kids-to-die.html

This is the policy of our government, approved by President Obama, who in general tries to improve immigration policy.

But refugees like Elena from Honduras are deported even though their lives and safety are in danger.

We bear some of the guilt for these policies.

We must change things for Elena.

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In memory of Martha Puebla & In honor of Maria Riveros

On a spring night in 2003, Martha Puebla, age 16, was shot in the face while sitting outside her home in Sun Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Her death was ordered by a gang member on trial for a murder she had witnessed.

On July 13, 2008, in San Ignacio, Paraguay, Maria Riveros took her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to the home of an obstetrician and asked her to perform an abortion. The fetus of about 4 mo. was buried outside the home, but there were complications and the next day Maria had to rush her daughter to a hospital, where a hysterectomy was performed. The obstetrician and her daughter, a nurse, were arrested and charged with performing an abortion.

This blog is dedicated to Martha, Maria and all women who courageously negotiate their lives in this world filled with gang warfare and international warfare, poverty and wealth, drug trafficking and addiction, and lack of access to birth control, legal abortion, and other health care.