A 13-year-old girl who was sexually abused by a neighbor voluntarily interrupted a 12-week pregnancy and sparked the debate on the decriminalization of abortion in Venezuela, where the justice system imprisoned the woman who helped her and freed the aggressor for lack of evidence.

The case has aroused outrage in much of the public opinion that rejects the arrest of Vanesa Rosales, the teacher and activist who provided the abortion and who spent three months behind bars, although she is now under house arrest awaiting a trial that could end up sentencing her to 12 years in prison.

The issue is so controversial that there are still few who dare to speak out openly, without hiding behind the wall of social networks, where the most extreme reactions were not long in coming.

But if a pregnancy in a 13-year-old girl always drags some inevitable inconveniences due to the immaturity -both physical and psychological of the pregnant woman-, in Venezuela, they are aggravated, as a result of the living conditions of most citizens, who live in misery and with no signs of improvement in the near future.

If the minor had belonged to a family with economic possibilities, would the same thing have happened? Would she have had an abortion in this way or would she have sought other options in the hands of specialists? And, what is equally important: would there have been a complaint? Would the news have been known or would it have remained private?