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November 28, 2001
Fiction
Well, She's Dead 
Abortion is illegal in Guatemala. My Spanish tutor once told me that the local women's prison is full of women sentenced for having illegal abortions, a travesty in and of itself. However, imprisonment is not what I feared most for my friend. An environment that bans women from aborting unwanted pregnancies breeds a cesspool of misinformation and inadequate training that leads to careless, sloppy procedures that puts women's lives at risk.