Esperanza Martínez (born April 26, 1959) is a Paraguayan medical doctor and politician, senator for the left wing alliance Frente Guazu and an active member of the party Participación Ciudadana (PPC). From August 2008 till June 2012 she was the

Paraguayan Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

Minister of Public Health and Social Welfare under President

Fernando Lugo Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez (; born 30 May 1951) is a Paraguayan politician and laicized Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously he was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop, serving as Bishop of the Diocese ...

. In May 2012 she was elected vice-president for the 65th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization. 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."

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