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Argentine doctors protest legal abortion ahead of key vote

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Austral University Hospital,
Associated Press which is linked to the con-
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina servative Catholic Opus
(AP) — A campaign to ex- Dei movement. "We see
pand legal abortions in the ever more doctors joining"
homeland of Pope Francis the protests.
is bitterly dividing Argen- Argentina now allows abor-
tines — and increasingly tion only in cases of rape or
even the profession that risks to a woman's health.
would be asked to carry But advocates say doctors
them out. and judges often continue
Hundreds of physicians to block legal abortions. Il-
have staged anti-abortion legal abortions can lead to
protests as an abortion four years in prison for the
rights bill moves toward woman and doctor alike.
a vote in the Senate next The measure only narrowly
week. Some have demon- passed in the Chamber of
strated while carrying fetus- Deputies on June 14 after
shaped dolls and waving a long campaign by hun-
signs saying: "I'm a doctor, dreds of feminist and hu-
not a murderer." At one man rights groups. Its ad-
recent protest, they laid vance appears to have
white medical coats on the galvanized opponents, reli-
ground outside the presi- In this July 15, 2018 photo, a medical doctor holds a small plastic doll shaped like a fetus while gious and otherwise, to mo-
dential palace. chanting: "I'm a doctor, not a murderer," during protest against efforts to legalize abortion, in bilize public protests ahead
While the Doctors for Life Buenos Aires, Argentina. Associated Press of a Senate vote tentative-
activist group claims about ly set for Aug. 8. President
1,000 members — only a which has already passed lation. The academy issued birth control specialists is- Mauricio Macri has said
small fraction of the coun- the lower house of Con- a statement that human sued a strong statement in he will sign the measure if
try's physicians — its pro- gress. They said it would life begins at conception favor of the proposed law. it passes, despite opposing
tests are feeding a debate help reduce deaths among and "to destroy a human Officials at about 300 pri- abortion.
in the profession as a whole the estimated 400,000 to embryo means impeding vate hospitals and medical Pope Francis this year de-
about the move to legal- 500,000 women who now the birth of a human be- facilities have denounced nounced abortion as the
ize elective abortions in the receive clandestine abor- ing." it. "white glove" equivalent
first 14 weeks of pregnancy. tions each year. "Nothing good can come "The defense of life is at the of the Nazi-era eugenics
Leaders of the prestigious But the equally august when society chooses very foundation of our insti- program and urged fami-
Argentina Medical Soci- Academy of Medicine ve- death as a solution," it said. tution," said Ernesto Beruti, lies "to accept the children
ety have endorsed the bill, hemently rejects the legis- An association of medical chief of obstetrics at the that God gives them."q

Survivor says Mexico plane hit burst of hail before crash

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN eliminated the possibility of
Associated Press using wing exits, so Herrera
DURANGO, Mexico (AP) — said he moved toward a
A U.S. passenger aboard a back exit and started help-
flight that crashed on take- ing other people leave the
off in northern Mexico said craft. Many walked to the
Wednesday that a strong end of the runway to wait
burst of wind and hail hit the for emergency vehicles.
Aeromexico jetliner, appar- Durango state Gov. Jose
ently knocking it back to Aispuro said all 99 passen-
ground, where there were gers and four crewmem-
only moments to evacuate bers made it off the plane,
before it burned. but the pilot was severely
Alberto Herrera, a 35-year- injured.
old webpage engineer About 49 people were hos-
from Chicago, described pitalized with injuries. Some
the terrifying moments people had burns on a
when the plane briefly quarter of their bodies, said
became airborne before Durango state Health Min-
smacking belly-down onto istry spokesman Fernando
a field beyond the edge of Ros.
the runway. Aispuro said all were ex-
"You start gaining speed pected to live.
and as soon as you start In this photo, Red Cross workers and rescue workers carry an injured person on a stretcher, An Illinois priest was on the
taking off all of the sudden as airline workers walk away from the site where an Aeromexico airliner crashed in Durango, plane. The Roman Catholic
the plane starts struggling Mexico, Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Associated Press Archdiocese of Chicago
and it's getting hit with hail," baby. got to us," he recounted seriously, seriously moving said the Rev. Esequiel San-
said Herrera, who was visit- "The higher up we went from his hotel room. "Then around and then hitting the chez suffered some injuries,
ing the city of Durango for into the storm the heavier all of a sudden the plane ground." but was alert and resting.q
the baptism of his cousin's the hail got and more wind starts rocking and it starts The fire around the wings