Esperanza Martínez Lleida de Portillo (born 26 April 1959) is a Paraguayan medical doctor and politician, currently serving as senator since 2013.
Esperanza Martínez | |
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Senator of Paraguay | |
Assumed office 30 June 2013 | |
Minister of Public Health and Social Welfare of Paraguay | |
In office 15 August 2008 – 22 June 2012 | |
President | Fernando Lugo |
Preceded by | Oscar Martínez Doldán |
Succeeded by | Antonio Arbo |
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Born | Esperanza Martínez Lleida April 26, 1959 Asunción, Paraguay |
Political party | Public Participation Party |
Other political affiliations | Guasú Front |
Spouse | Carlos Portillo MD |
Children | 3 |
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She previously served as Minister of Public Health and Social Welfare from 2008 to 2012, under President Fernando Lugo.[1]
In May 2012 she was elected vice-president for the 65th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization.[2]
She is an advocate of liberalizing implementation of laws regarding abortion in Paraguay to help a pregnant 10-year-old who was raped by her stepfather, complaining that to those who opposed the treatment, the unnamed girl "became a uterus. She became a birth canal."[3]
References
edit- ^ CIA World Leaders Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Pan American Health Organization
- ^ "Paraguay senator says pregnant 10-year-old denied abortion 'became a uterus'". Associated Press. The Guardian. 10 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.