Whereas, in March 2013, Beatriz, a young woman living in poverty with lupus, was told she was 11 weeks pregnant with a high-risk pregnancy; Whereas Beatriz’s pregnancy was found to be unviable given the diagnosis of anencephaly; Whereas medical staff agreed that Beatriz’s pregnancy had to be terminated due to Beatriz’s deteriorating health and life endangerment; Whereas the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice denied Beatriz’s petition to provide her lifesaving abortion care and necessitated the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to intervene and grant temporary precautionary measures in Beatriz’s favor on April 29, 2013, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a similar order on May 29, 2013; Whereas, on June 3, 2013, Beatriz underwent a cesarean section, and the anencephalic fetus died 5 hours later; Whereas Beatriz was denied access to a legal, early, and timely abortion in a case of an anencephalic pregnancy, which not only damaged her health, personal integrity, and life, but also violated the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, and her right to live a life free from violence and discrimination as is stated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Whereas the United States has joined the international community in identifying reproductive rights as human rights, including in connection with the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women, and through its ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in New York, on December 19, 1966, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in New York, on December 21, 1965, and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in New York, on December 10, 1984