International court tells El Salvador to allow abortion of deformed fetus

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International court tells El Salvador to allow abortion of deformed fetus

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/international-court-tells-el-salvador-allow-abortion-deformed-225618627.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vEdQIF0oNJBbd5jEKAz8HQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-05-30T225618Z_1_CBRE94T1RQ900_RTROPTP_2_MEXICO.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A member of Amnesty International attends a demonstration outside the El Salvador embassy in Mexico City" align="left" title="A member of Amnesty International attends a demonstration outside the El Salvador embassy in Mexico City" border="0" /></a>By Isabella Cota SAN JOSE (Reuters) - The regional human rights court for the Americas on Thursday told El Salvador it must let doctors perform an abortion on a woman carrying a seriously deformed fetus that has put her life at risk, but the Central American nation was not bound by the move. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights took the action after El Salvador's Supreme Court issued a ruling on Wednesday rejecting an appeal brought by the 22-year-old woman at the center of the case. She had sought an abortion even though El Salvador banned all types of abortion in 1999. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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