Thread: Latinas take risks to end pregnancy

January 5, 2009
For Privacy’s Sake, Taking Risks to End Pregnancy
By JENNIFER 8. LEE and CARA BUCKLEY
Amalia Dominguez was 18 and desperate and knew exactly what to ask for at the small, family-run pharmacy in the heart of Washington Heights, the thriving Dominican enclave in northern Manhattan. “I need to bring down my period,â€

Try the knitting needle method like many others have. Women have gone through far more methods to end an unwanted pregnancy.....Latinos don't have a market on this and the pain is no less devestating and horrible.

Let's see. Now we have to re-visit the womans movement, Mans responsibility and abuse........took more than my life time to get through this........and here we go again.

While I agree with you CB, I think these women are violating a culture they were brought up in, i.e., a woman is only worthy if she can produce a load of children. To even consider an abortion is worthy of being stoned to death in some part of the world as the woman is embarrassing the family, and especially the male that impregnated her, even if it was her family member. She is probably also going against all teachings of her religion.
This is more stress than many women can take, but the only thing they know is they cannot have that child.