Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb 5, 2009 / 12:10 pm
A 21 year-old Argentinean woman, whose mother is mentally ill and was raped in 1987, has written a moving letter pleading for the life of an unborn child of a 22 year-old woman from Santiago del Estero who is also mentally handicapped and was raped. The child’s maternal grandparents are asking permission to have the baby aborted.
“My twin sister and I are today almost 22 years-old and despite all of the misfortunes (as my grandmother says) that we have experienced, we are two warriors of life who are anxious to do something good with our lives, and I think this three month-old unborn baby hopes for the same,” the woman wrote in her letter published by Tucuman Noticias.
The woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, said she identified with the situation in Santiago del Estero, but not from the point of view of the law or the woman who was raped, but rather “from the point of view of the baby.”
In her letter, she explained that both she and her sister were raised by their grandmother and that her mother is “like a big sister.” She recalled that her mother suffered “a lot in her life” and that although she had experienced a lot of problems, she had a happy childhood.