Fighting To Decriminailize Abortion in D.R.

Brut America

Her daughter was denied life-saving cancer treatment because of her pregnancy. Now, this mother is fighting to decriminailize abortions in Dominican Republic.

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00:00My daughter was 16 years old and I always told her,

00:03I want you to stop that pregnancy because my daughter needs medical treatment.

00:07But I told myself, we can't give her anything because she is pregnant.

00:11And all the time it was like that.

00:12They let my daughter die.

00:31I took her to the emergency room at Sema Santo Domingo.

00:34And they told me that she had a few-week-old pregnancy.

00:37After 15 days, the results came.

00:40But they knew.

00:42They knew that my daughter had leukemia.

00:44They just kept quiet and didn't tell me.

00:46They gave her calmantico so as not to damage the pregnancy.

00:49All the aunts said, I can't stand the pain.

00:52I'm dying.

01:00I never thought I would be part of that statistic of women who abort.

01:10I didn't think it was going to happen to me.

01:11I was so desperate that I took the first option.

01:15The clinic is in a very bad state.

01:28Very dirty, very, very, very dirty.

01:30Very careless.

01:31Even the toilet was covered.

01:32There was no water.

01:33It is obvious that something very shady is happening there.

01:37So they put me on the bed.

01:39It was a metal table, as I said, it had no sheets or anything.

01:42They injected me with anesthesia.

01:44And he started the process.

01:47I was screaming a lot because I was uncomfortable.

01:50I was telling him to stop.

01:51And he told me that I was an idiot.

01:52That really was very traumatic.

01:54I mean, I could have died there.

02:07What we are asking for is the right to decide.

02:09Because right now we don't have options.

02:11I'm not going to shut him up because my daughter was destroyed.

02:13Abortion is forbidden.

02:15You can't do that here in our country.

02:18She had many plans, many hopes.

02:20She had many dreams.

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