A new minister of health in Brazil is showing remarkable good sense (and courage in taking on the Catholic Church):
The minister, Jose Gomes Temporao, said in a newspaper interview he wanted to move the issue on from religious and moral contexts to a matter of health.
…Mr Temporao says that around 200,000 women are treated for complications following abortions every year, the vast majority of them believed to have taken place in illegal clinics involving a high degree of risk for the women.
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