'It isn't enough': Babies murdered in horrific killing spree

'The one voice that was missing in the whole conversation was the women themselves.'

Babies are being slaughtered across Latin America in a heartbreakingly misguided attempt to spare them from their own bodies.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Pan American Health Organization alerted the public to a list of severe birth defects and complications for the unborn children of Zika-infected women.

Following the urgent message, there was a spike in illegal abortions through Women on Web, an online store that sells pills to terminate pregnancies.

Women on Web's data between January 1, 2010 and March 2, 2016 showed a 108 percent rise in abortion requests. Though the shocking jump was not entirely composed of Zika-infected women, it did indicate children are being slaughtered in droves.

Brazil saw the highest increase of abortion requests, followed by Ecuador, Venezuela, Honduras, Colombia, Costa Rica and El Salvador.

The only country on the list that saw a decline in abortion requests was Jamaica, which is currently at-risk for the mosquito-borne disease but has not seen an infection rate as serious as Brazil or Ecuador.

The New England Journal of Medicine released a study titled, "Requests for Abortion in Latin America Related to Concern about Zika Virus Exposure."

The study revealed a disheartening rise in abortion requests specifically due to Zika-related fears for unborn children.

According to CNN, Dr. Catherine Aiken, one of the study's authors, admitted: "We really were not sure how women were going to respond to this health crisis. The one voice that was missing in the whole conversation was the women themselves."

Abortion is illegal in many Latin American countries and Dr. Aiken believes the Latin American governments did too little to help their citizens, resulting in the widespread killing spree of innocents.

"It isn't enough for health officials just to warn women about the risks associated with Zika," she explained. "They must also make efforts to ensure that women are offered safe, legal and accessible reproductive services.

"Regardless of the fact that you can go to jail for having an abortion in many of these countries, it's not surprising that women and girls would turn to clandestine avenues to procure abortions.

"Imagine how scary it must feel to be a girl or woman who becomes pregnant in a Zika-affected country right now."

Though abortion is not the answer for the pregnant girls and women, Aiken's call for more information and medical services can certainly help.

While the Zika virus spreads, poisoning healthy babies and breaking the hearts of mothers across Latin America, abortion rates will continue to rise, leaving the silent governments and lack of medical services to blame.

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