In the eyes of the world, Wilton was a 10-year-old migrant from Nicaragua who had been abandoned in a Texas scrubland. A viral video that showed the crying child asking a US Border Patrol officer for help became a symbol of the first immigration crisis facing the administration of President Joe Biden.
But the story is part of a larger tragedy that began when Wilton and his mother fled their home to escape domestic abuse. The journey took them through the mountains of El Rama, in Nicaraguaâs southern Caribbean coast, and ended with a kidnapping in northern Mexico, near the US border.
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The bill is set to make Argentina the first major Latin American country to decriminalise voluntary abortion up to the fourteenth week of pregnancy. Currently, abortion is only legal in cases where the pregnancy causes danger to the person, or is the result of abuse or sexual violence. Even then, “the ultimate decision to abort remains in hands of the health professionals instead of the patient, giving rise to multiple uses and abuse of power,” explains a spokesperson for La Red de Profesionales de la salud por el Derecho a Decidir (The Network of Health Professionals for the Right to Choose).