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This is the story of Rosa. A Nicaraguan
child who was only nine years old,

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when she and her young parents
face a painful challenge.

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Rosa is a poor child whose
family moved to Costa Rica

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in search of work, in
search of a better life.

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At the end of the story, Rosita
is still a poor child back home

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in poverty striking Nicaragua.

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[non-English narration]

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(inaudible) construct all the
record, all that was leaved

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and fell in Costa Rica and in Nicaragua
in the early months of 2003.

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I spoke extensively with
Francisco and Maria,

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Rosita’s parents, and I
also spoke with Rosita.

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The conflict was great,

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that’s why her parents didn’t
want Rosita to be seen.

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Rosa began school at seven. She
learned to read and write.

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She made big letters and
practiced writing her name.

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Rosa was friendly with everyone at school.
She was even

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elected Miss Congeniality.

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Rosa was eight years old, almost nine, when
one day in November, as she walked to school

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with her two little cousins, a man
called to her. She had seen him before,

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he was a neighbor. The man invited

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the three children to enter his
patio, he let them cut tangerines

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and eat them right there. And now that
they more of the same, the patio,

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the tangerines, the little
words, \"Come here, little one,

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don’t you want a snack?\" And
now that they look child,

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\"Don’t you want to see my
television?\" One day Rosa argue

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with her little cousins and
walked ahead alone on the road.

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As she passed where the man leaved,
he called her as he know their times.

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And when she entered
looking for tangerines,

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he grabbed her by the arm and
threw her into the room.

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He pushed her on to the
bed, he pull off her skirt,

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her blue school skirt, pull down
her underpants, cover her mouth,

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and he raped her.

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Rosa felt an unknown pain.

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The man gave her a rack

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to clean her blood and her tears.

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She found a little cousins
waiting on the patio

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and she went on to school with them.
She didn’t tell them anything,

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she didn’t cry.

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Rosa wasn’t allowed to return home.

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She was kept in William Allen
Hospital in Turrialba.

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The case was unusual.
Not yet nine years old,

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Rosa had now had her first menstruation, in the first
of dilation, produced an egg that was fertilized.

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The parish priest

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visited the hospital everyday and consulted with
the medical team on the progress of the pregnancy.

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Rosa was confused. \"Mama, tell me,

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when am I gonna be cure of this? \" \" It’s
not that you’re gonna be cure, Rosa,

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you are pregnant child. \"\"
But mama, what does it mean

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that I am pregnant? \" \" Pregnant is when
the woman has a tiny child in there,

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in her womb. \" \" But tell me, mama,

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if I had told you what Alex did to
me then, I wouldn’t be pregnant?\"

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\"No, it’s not like that, it’s
not telling or not telling,

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even if you had told, you
would still be pregnant.\"

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I went to speak with her in the hospital to
find out the facts for the investigation.

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She was a very intelligent girl
– with spark – as we say here.

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Very alert.

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Rosa said, \"Mama, tell me, how does
it come out from inside my belly?\"

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\"It comes out the way you went in.\"

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\"Mama, did you think that there are other
girls in my school who have been pregnant?\"

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\"No, Rosa, I don’t think so.\"

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\"I have never seen this.\" \"Then
what’s gonna happen to me?\"

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\"Mamita, I am so sorry about these.

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I am so sorry.\"

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My boss, the director of my organization
and I were on our way to the beach.

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It takes some time off on Saturday morning
and we bought the newspapers, we always do.

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Many times we become aware of specific cases
of (inaudible) working (inaudible) violations

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because we read about them in the newspaper or
if it is about abortion or sexual violence,

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then we decided whether we need
to do go, find out what happened.

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She was driving, I was reading.

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Beneath in our goal about
baby who had drowned in a

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water and a pothole which was just a terrible
story. There is a… there is a headline

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that said, nine-year-old
(inaudible) grow up pregnant.

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Doctor say, these cases are rare but
possible. And the article described a girl

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who they named Rosa and her
parents (inaudible) Costa Rica.

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But the time the Nicaraguan the location arriving
Costa Rica, Rosa had spent 19 days in nights

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in the pediatric word of the hospital in
Turrialba. She was transferred to hospital

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in San Jose. Nobody ask her parents

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what they thought, what they wanted to
do, everything was decided for them.

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The doctors would say, \"Child, what
are you gonna name your baby?\"

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They ask a lot of things like that.
\"Mama, I’m little,

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I have to go to school, what am I gonna do?
Are you gonna take care of it?\"

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Maria thought I was supposed
to take care of what that

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bandito Alex (inaudible) has done. Btu
what was I supposed to say to Rosa,

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so she wouldn’t feel so suffocated.

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The child protection agency in Costa Rica

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was looking at a possibility taking
the girl away from the parents

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in order they said to protect her health.

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Rosita complained, \"Mama,
I’m tired of being here.\"

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\"Do you think I’m not?\"
\"Don’t you go complaining?\"

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\"What you have to do is to be alert. If
someone comes here wanting to take you away,

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don’t let them.\"

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\"But who is gonna wanna
take me away, mama?\"

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And it happened as my mama said it would.
One day when she wasn’t there,

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a woman came to the hospital
to see me, a very ugly woman.

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\"Do you like being here, little one?\" \"No,

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I want to get out of here. \"\"
Well, you’re gonna get out.

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We’re gonna take you to live
with us in the Patronato.\"

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\"But I live in Turrialba with my parents.\"
\"We know, but they were responsible

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and see what happened to you. Now you
are going to live in the Patronato.\"

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I remember what my mama had told me,
I defended myself and I defended

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my mama and papa. What happened
to me was not their fault.

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I told the woman that many times but
she didn’t believe me. She left

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but she told me that she would be back.

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Things got more tensed. On one day, the
Costa Rican office for child had said

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they were going to block the family’s exit.
Then they learned their representatives

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from the Nicaraguan ministries of family and
health were coming to San Jose to make sure

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the child stay there although she
gave birth. They had to leave

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Costa Rica before this group arrived.

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He was done of what they hoped
would be their last day

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in Costa Rica. Lorna went with
María and Rosita to Turrialba

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where Rosa was going to testify against
the men she accused of raping her.

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The route Turrialba

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is winding in (inaudible)
they got their late.

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Olga was waiting for them.

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\"Is that him?\" Lorna asked Olga quietly.

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Yes, but don’t worry. Neither
the child nor the mother

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is gonna cross paths him at any time.
There was Alex (inaudible)

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He had a long face, small eyes,

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nothing special, a young
man like any other.

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Is this gonna day alone for this to Rosa?

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In a little bit room where he cannot
be seen, the accused was listening

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to the testimony. After Rosa and her mother
left, he testified. He denied everything.

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\"When do we leave?\" Rosa asked.
\"I’m tired.\"

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\"You can live here little one because
you have to sign this papers,

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the (inaudible).\" Finally they
were done, Rosa signed her name

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in big letters on her testimony and
they flew back to San Jose in a taxi.

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It was past midnight, already Wednesday,

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the final day.

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The attorney Juanita Jiménez stole Rosa’s parents that
there is a law in Nicaragua that permits an abortion

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if the women’s life is in danger.
It’s called a therapeutic abortion.

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And that’s when it got crazy,
I mean, just to show you.

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This and this are all the articles

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that we were able to gather
from the local press

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on the case, a hundreds and hundreds

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and hundreds in the international press. Rosa’s
name was household (inaudible) on the radio,

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she was on the TV, she was in
the street, she was everywhere.

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María worried. Rosita feels
like she has a nut inside her

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that hurts a lot. Nevertheless,

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the ministry of health said that Rosa would
only be eligible for a therapeutic abortion.

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If a committee of sixteen 16 doctors determined
that the pregnancy threatened her life.

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[sil.]

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Rosa’s advocates managed to get her into the
hospital (inaudible) and to have her (inaudible)

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by only three doctors. The
psychologist (inaudible)

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could stay with her and the most
important thing, the (inaudible)

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had to arrive at a conclusion
in less than 24 hours.

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So I have to wait until tomorrow,
Rosa complained, tomorrow Rosita,

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it will be tomorrow, don’t worry.

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Is there I am very afraid of dying,
but you are not going to die Rosita.

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You are not going to die.

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The group (inaudible) test that had been done
on the child when they arrive from Costa Rica.

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They were extensive, but the
doctors wanted to repeat

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all of them. She cried when they
announce the exam with the speculum.

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That hurts too much. I don’t want
anyone else to look at my bottom.

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They had to get Rosa out of the hospital and
quickly. Lorna sat her on the wheel chair

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and started running down the hall.
She ask a nurse for help.

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They couldn’t leave through the front door,
it was packed with journalists. The nurse ran

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to get a key for the back door. Rosa
was laughing for hurry what’s again.

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The nurse opened the back
door, a car was waiting.

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They escaped.

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In another part of the hospital,

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the committee was weighing the two alternatives,
carry the pregnancy to term or end it.

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The committee finished their deliberations

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a few minutes before 11pm.
They (inaudible),

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they injure in birth, they
injure in the abortion.

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The family, what are they going to do
when they know the Minister of Health

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opposes their decision and they
know that all of the health

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personnel in Managua were advised if
the girl was in the area and that

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she… she might come into
their hospital at any time.

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Rosa was frightened

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before the abortion. She asked
the doctors 1,001 questions.

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\"Is it gonna hurt a lot?
How long is it gonna take?

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Will I be able to watch? When can I eat?\"

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\"Is that it, mama?\"

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\"Yes, that’s it.\" Thank god, it’s over.

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[music]

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[music]

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[sil.]

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When internet campaign

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was started by a group of Women’s
Health and Rights Activist

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which was called the \"I too want
to be excommunicated\" campaign.

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I received many emails saying,
\"I want to be excommunicated.\"

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I tell them the
excommunication is medicinal.

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It’s like a mother or father
who corrects a child.

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If the Church is a mother, then really her
role is to be with the one who suffers,

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to support him and lend him a hand.

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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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Rosa brought down two ministers
in the Nicaraguan government.

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The minister who have tried to stop
the abortion was made to resign.

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The minister of the family

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who tried to take Rosa away from her
parents was also forced out of office.

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[sil.]

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[non-English narration]

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A year after Rosa’s case, (inaudible) a living Europe
girl raped and made pregnant by her step father

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is in the news. The
government is holding her

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in a home front with mothers. The
press is calling her, another Rosita.

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[music]

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[sil.]