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SANTO DOMINGO.- Hundreds of people from different provinces gathered in front of the Santo Domingo State University (UASD), from where they marching toward Congress, demanding that the lawmakers revoke Article 30 that criminalizes most forms of abortion, approved last week by the Constitution’s Revisory Assembly in a first roll call.
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Bolding mine - the article is mistaken - 'most' should read 'all'. This is precisely why they were protesting - because Article 30 permits no exceptions to the ban whatsoever. Not even in the cases of a gang-raped 9-year old girl whose body cannot sustain a pregnancy or of a woman with an unviable ectopic pregnancy that puts her life at risk.
I'd ask any of those legislators who voted in favour of Article 30 to tell me honestly what they would do if it were them, their wife, girlfriend, sister or daughter in that position, but I won't bother, because I already know what their answers would be.