Zika sparks Brazil debate over abortion, access to contraception

From Al Jazeera

Zika sparks Brazil debate over abortion, access to contraception

For almost all of her four months of life so far, baby Maria has only ever known a shelter for disabled children in the northeast of Brazil. Maria was born with microcephaly — an abnormally small head. Her mother handed her to the state authorities when she was just three days old. “I think when mothers see their babies with microcephaly, they must think, ‘Now what? What can I do? What will it be like?’ And maybe this makes her give up the baby,” said Delza Ribeiro, who was an employee at the children’s home in Recife that received Maria.

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