Rashaed Esson
Staff Writer
#Cuba, October 3, 2023 – Decriminalized abortion rights in Cuba are under harsh scrutiny by counter-revolutionaires.
Camila Acosta, Cuban mercenary journalist is cited by People’s World speaking on abortion, which she describes is as easy as “pulling teeth,” the headline to a report she wrote in the Spanish newspaper ABC.
In pointing to the supposed dark reality of abortion, Acosta borrowed the views of Óscar Elías Biscet, a Cuban ex-prisoner and anti-abortion doctor, a “devout Christian” and “human rights activist” accoridng to ABC.
He is of the impression that to hold infant mortality rate low, pressure is put on “women with seemingly difficult, problematic pregnancies, to seek termination and oftentimes soon before delivery.
Considering this, María Werlau director of the Cuba Archive in Miami, contends a similar view that women “with high-risk pregnancies are systematically pressured (…) to have abortions.” But even more alarming, believes this leads to “their fetuses” potentially being used in experiments and transplants, concealing a web of international trafficking of human organs and tissues.
Abortion was decriminalized in Cuba in 1961, making the country the first in Latin America and the Caribbean to do so.
This was reported by People’s World on October 2nd.
