Protesters holding banners and shouting slogans held a rally on Friday (June 24) to protest against an 11-year-old girl, a victim of rape who, by decision of a judge in the southern region of Brazil, prevented abortion on the date of the hearing.

The United States is embroiled in a political maelstrom after the Supreme Court overruling Roe v Wade on the same day.

BRA - Abortion denied by Santa Catarina judge to 11-year-old girl raped has repercussions in Brazil

Protesters holding banners and shouting slogans held a rally to protest against an 11-year-old girl, a victim of rape who, by decision of a judge in the southern region of Brazil, prevented abortion on the date of the hearing.
A large number of police attended the protest.The case of an 11-year-old girl, a victim of rape, who was kept by the Justice in a shelter in Santa Catarina to prevent her from having an authorized abortion. Judge Joana Ribeiro, author of the decision, even compared the procedure to murder.
The girl discovered that she was 22 weeks pregnant when she was referred to a hospital in Florianópolis, but the unit denied the procedure because it would only carry out the interruption with up to 20 weeks of gestation. There is no national consensus on pregnancy terminations after 22 weeks in the case of rape.
This Thursday (23), after the recommendation of the body, the MPF reported that the child managed to do the procedure. She had been released by the court to leave the shelter on Tuesday (21).

SOT 00:58:00 - Carolina Iara -transgender councilor of Sao Paulo: demonstrating against the nonsense that happened to the girl from Santa Catarina, who was prevented from having a legal abortion after being raped and still removed from her own mother, from the your family because of the conservatism of a judge and a prosecutor, I have already gone through situations like this in a public hospital, where we have to have friction with the police authorities, with the judicial authorities when performing legal abortion on raped minors, and I believe that this issue needs to be debated by Brazilian society.

SOT 02:10:00 - Paola-demonstrator: we feel very indignant as a woman, because we want the guarantee of the law and also as a protection for the girls and women of Brazil.

footage: Dário Oliveira
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