“…This is not new today, when the Congressional Committee on Human Rights is chaired by a fundamentalist pastor. Severina's story took place in 2004, a few days after a preliminary injunction that allowed abortion in cases of anencephaly was overruled by the Brazilian Supreme Court 1,2 . Even with a court authorization in force, the anesthetists at the hospital where the patient was referred for a legal abortion refused to assist her -claiming religious grounds.…”