Imagine being told that your unborn foetus is suffering from Anencephaly (which means it's developing without a brain and will die, see above) and in addition to that it may just take you with it. That's exactly what is facing a Woman in El Salvador right now as medical services try desperately to help her.
If this isn't traumatic enough, imagine also being told that if you abort the foetus chances are you'll recover but then you'll go to jail because you live in a country that has a government so backward that it enshrines in its law an interpretation of an ancient myth from the Middle East, delivered to its shores in the 16th century by Spaniards (who no longer bake these religious interpretations into their legal system) at a time when the medical remedy for most things was thought to be a bucket of leeches.
People often ask the question, why do atheists care about religion when they don't believe in God, it's simple, atheists are also human beings and have empathy, we can't help it we're just wired that way. A more relevant question in my view would be why aren't Catholics?
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