Obviamente que querem que ele lute pelo que acredita.
George Clooney até nem é fisicamente o meu estilo, mas tira-me o chao por ser assim, exactamente assim. Assim agarra o meu pódio.
Heinrich entra em Portugal em 1798
A fortaleza fronteiriça portuguesa de Elvas fica apenas a três léguas espanholas de Badajoz e das portas desta última terra pode ser distintamente vista no cimo da sua colina. Um, pequeno ribeiro, o Caia, que com o tempo seco pode ser atravessado a pé, forma a fronteira que é mais demarcada artificialmente que pela natureza. Deste lado Portugal parece extraordinário. Em vez dos vastos descampados, das aldeias afastadas, encontra-se uma terra povoada por casas isoladas e dispersas, cujo aspecto parece indicar uma cultura e uma civilização superiores. À medida que nos aproximamos de Elvas vemos os primeiros laranjais abertos ao longo do caminho, apesar de em Badajoz se ver já uma grande quantidade destes frutos. O traje, mesmo do português vulgar, é melhor: um gibão castanho-escuro ou preto e um chapéu são mais frequentes do que os casacos e barretes castanhos dos espanhóis. As mulheres são mais amáveis e comunicativas do que as castelhanas e parecidas com as biscainhas, trazem geralmente o cabelo solto, apenas ligeiramente apanhado por uma fita ou por um lenço. A cortesia, a maneira de ser fácil, alegre e amável do povo mais humilde fazem com que de imediato se simpatize mais com a nação portuguesa do que com a espanhola. E esta opinião não se altera enquanto neste país se ficar entre as classes mais baixas, experimentando-se porém uma opinião totalmente oposta assim que se conhecem as classes mais altas.
Em Notas de uma viagem a Portugal e através de França e Espanha, pág. 79, de Heinrich Friedrich Link, Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa, 2005O negrito é meu.
In El Salvador, the law is clear: the woman is a felon and must be prosecuted.
Indeed, the evidence suggests that the ban in El Salvador disproportionately affects poor women.
As they do in any investigation, the police collect evidence by interviewing everyone who knows the accused and by seizing her medical records. But they must also visit the scene of the crime, which, following the logic of the law, often means the woman's vagina.
"Many doctors are afraid not to report," says Mira, the obstetrician I spoke to. This fear is heightened for doctors, she explains, by the fact that nurses also have a legal duty to report abortion crimes but are often confused about their obligation of confidentiality. So doctors are afraid that the nurses will report them for not reporting. "The entire system is run on fear," Mira said.
A policy that criminalizes all abortions has a flip side. It appears to mandate that the full force of the medical team must tend toward saving the fetus under any circumstances. This notion can lead to some dangerous practices. Consider an ectopic pregnancy (...) According to Sara Valdés, the director of the Hospital de Maternidad, women coming to her hospital with ectopic pregnancies cannot be operated on until fetal death or a rupture of the fallopian tube. "That is our policy," Valdés told me. She was plainly in torment about the subject.
I was there to see Carmen Climaco. She is now 26 years old, four years into her 30-year sentence. She has three children, who today are 11, 8 and 6 years old. We talked about them for a while. Since she was the only person in the family who worked, her children's financial situation is precarious; they now stay with their grandmother. Climaco said she lives for their visits, which are brief and come only twice a month. (...) "I became pregnant at a time when my smallest child was in the hospital," she said. "I never thought I could get pregnant because I had been sterilized. Suddenly I saw two doors shutting at the same time. There was nothing I could do. My mother said she'd toss me out of the house if I got pregnant."
We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against, but like Safran, and like you, I discover myself choosing this time and the next time against what I am certain is good and correct, and against what I am certain is worthy. I choose that I will not, instead of that I will. None of this is effortless to say.