# Mexican girl wins abortion \[lawsuit\] award
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577 "2006-03-08T20:30:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/1 "2006-03-08T20:30:01Z")
I wasn’t sure where to post this, but this seems as good as any. I really don’t want to debate the legal/moral right or wrong of abortion and I’m not pitting anyone, just offering my opinion and reaction to a news item. If the mods see fit, feel free to move this as needed. 🙂
There is a story in the LA times today (front page and continued on page 4 of the first section, can find a web site if anyone wants it) about a girl who was denied an abortion 6 years ago, when she was raped at age 13. She was just awarded a settlement and the acknowledgment that she should have been able to have it. The thing that really struck me was, how will this child feel growing up, knowing that his mother wanted to abort him, didn’t because she wasn’t allowed to and then proceeded to be involved in a lawsuit to say that it should have happened. (how’s that for a runon sentence? 😉 ) I can’t really imagine what it would be like but that would seem very damaging to your self esteem. It’s being hailed as a triumph for womens rights, which it is. But it is a sad case for the child that came of the situation.
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/2 "2006-03-08T20:34:29Z")
I could not for the life of me figure out where you were going with “Abortion Award”.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/3 "2006-03-08T20:36:21Z")
You are aware that was how _Roe vs. Wade_ was decided, right? Norma McCorvey (aka Jane Roe), had the child-she didn’t have an abortion.
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/4 "2006-03-08T20:37:56Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#):
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> I could not for the life of me figure out where you were going with “Abortion Award”.
sorry, I should have used settlement instead of award. I was trying to get a title in and used a word I see could be misleading. sorry about that.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/5 "2006-03-08T20:39:31Z")
I’ve edited the thread title.
I’m going to leave the thread here for now.
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/6 "2006-03-08T20:40:00Z")
Thanks for amending the title. I didn’t mean to confuse. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/7 "2006-03-08T21:37:03Z")
Did she keep the baby? Norma McCorvey gave hers up for adoption, and AFAIK nobody knows who it is now because of adoption privacy laws at the time.
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/8 "2006-03-08T21:58:08Z")
here’s a link to the la times story, [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexrape8mar08,0,3388735.story?coll=la-home-world](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexrape8mar08,0,3388735.story?coll=la-home-world) According to that, yes she is raising the child as a single mother.
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### Author:  [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/9 "2006-03-09T06:12:45Z")
What does being Mexican have to do with this?
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2006, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/10 "2006-03-09T08:56:10Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#):
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> Did she keep the baby? Norma McCorvey gave hers up for adoption, and AFAIK nobody knows who it is now because of adoption privacy laws at the time.
The daughter was identified in the late 1980s and became at least for a time a spokesperson for the anti-choice movement (as McCorvey herself has in the last decade), but I’m not finding a cite with her name online.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2006, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-girl-wins-abortion-lawsuit-award/347577/11 "2006-03-09T09:07:14Z")
> [@CBEscapee](#):
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> What does being Mexican have to do with this?
From the story:
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> In Mexico, only rape victims or women whose lives are at risk are allowed to obtain abortions. But such women have faced innumerable bureaucratic, legal and cultural obstacles when trying to exercise that right in this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country.
She was under extreme pressure to carry the child to term from various government officials and others.