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El Paso (United States) (AFP) - Diana Villanueva's rapist took her to an abortion clinic when she was just 16 years old and told her to terminate her pregnancy. She wasn't greeted by the crowds of protestors who often gather outside facilities in the United States to try to persuade women to change their minds. But now, this 53-year-old Catholic wishes she had been -- because she has been haunted by the termination ever since. "I was afraid that someone would see me because my mom was very involved in the church and I was afraid that somebody from church was going to be there," she told AFP. "...
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Santa Teresa (United States) (AFP) - When 30-year-old "F" learned that she was pregnant for the eighth time, she just wanted to cry. A homemaker dependent on her husband's income, she agonized for three weeks about what to do, but always came to the same conclusion: "I can't have this child." But then she was hit by a second problem. F's home state of Texas recently made getting an abortion a lot harder, one of a number of conservative parts of the United States where the political tide has turned against the procedure -- despite broad support for abortion rights among the American public. A n...
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Santa Teresa (United States) (AFP) - A few months after they began dating, 17-year-old "M" discovered she and her 19-year-old boyfriend were pregnant. There was never any doubt about what they needed to do: "We didn't want a child," she said. With a green light for an abortion in their conservative home state of Texas unlikely, a nine-hour overnight drive to New Mexico was their only practical option. The couple, who live in San Antonio and requested anonymity because of the political controversy surrounding the procedure, began dating just a month before Texas adopted one of the most restrict...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Candidates broke barriers in several races in the US election, including in New Mexico, the first state to send a delegation to the US House of Representatives made up entirely of women of color.The group will consist of Representative Deb Haaland, a Democrat who in 2018 became one of the first Native American women elected to Congress, Republican Yvette Herrell, who is also Native American, and Democrat Teresa Leger Fernandez, who is Hispanic.In Wyoming, Republican Cynthia Lummis on Tuesday became the first woman from the western state to win a seat in the US Senate.The ra...
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