Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: July 2015

Hooray for Pope Francis!

He is speaking truth to power--on the subject of economic injustice.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/living/martin-pope-justice/index.html

Doing something about economic oppression is not optional. It's a commandment.

May we all listen and respond.

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.

Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights

Monday, July 13, 2015

Pope on poverty