UN chief of Human Rights defends the right to abortion in countries with zika

The main commissioner of the UN Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, defended on Friday (5) countries with presence of the virus zika make available advice on sexual and reproductive health for women and allowing the right to abortion.
"The laws and policies that restrict access to these services should be urgently reviewed in accordance with human rights, to ensure in practice the right to health for all," he said in a statement.
"We are calling on governments to change these laws, because how can they ask these women not to get pregnant? But do not give them information that is available and also the possibility to terminate a pregnancy if they wish", told a news conference the spokesman for the UN Commissioner, Cecile Pouilly, when asked about countries like El Salvador that criminalize abortion.
In Brazil, where abortion is also criminalized, the growing number of cases of suspected microcephaly associated with zika virus has expanded the discussions on the subject.
Now head knotted, as can be head of human rights and defend death?
by Lipe Lundorf