Lack of sex education and the unenlightened stance of the Catholic church have left young girls in Guatemala vulnerable to rape,abuse and early pregnancy At a hospital in northern Guatemala, Alicia is being prepped for a caesarean. She doesn’t know how worn she is, and neither she nor her waiting parents have any plan what a C-section involves. Public records say she is 13. whether that is correct,at 12 she became pregnant by a 22-year-worn man.
Inside the operating room, the doctors play Christian music on a mobile phone. An hour later, and a baby boy weighing roughly four and a half pounds is born and hurried into an incubator. The next few days will be critical.
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Source: theguardian.com