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"Peru compensates woman in historic UN Human Rights abortion case"

United Nations Human Rights

In 2001, a 17-year-old Peruvian girl, named K.L., was 14 weeks pregnant when doctors at the public hospital in Lima diagnosed the foetus with anencephaly. Anencephaly is a fatal birth defect, where the foetus lacks most or all of the forebrain. Doctors told her that continuing the pregnancy would put her life and health at risk. She was recommended to have an abortion.

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/PeruAbortionCompensation.aspx