A debate is raging in Brazil over the country’s restrictive abortion laws against the background of an outbreak of the Zika virus.<br /><br /> A rise in the number of babies being born with undersized brains is being linked to it. <br /><br /> Pro-abortion groups are petitioning the Supreme Court to allow legal terminations for infected pregnant women.<br /><br /> Lawyer and spokesperson for the Latin American women’s rights group CLADEM, Beatriz Galli said infected women should have the right to choose:<br /><br /> “We do not have a diagnostic tool which is 100 percent secure… As it is a very uncertain future, women cannot be forced to carry forward a pregnancy in this crisis, this epidemic, or even pandemic as the“World Health Organisation“http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11585&Itemid=41688&lang=en declared regarding the Zika virus.”<br /><br /> Abortion in Brazil is illegal unless the woman is raped or her life is threatened. Religious groups and their representatives such as Lenise Garcia who is
