A court in El Salvador has sentenced a woman who suffered an obstetric emergency that ended her pregnancy to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) A court in El Salvador has sentenced a woman who suffered an obstetric emergency that ended her pregnancy to 30 years in
Kenia said she was 17 when she had a miscarriage after a fall and was sent to a Salvadoran jail on suspicion of having had an abortion.
Nine years later, she is out after receiving a reprieve, but feels like she was robbed of her youth in a country with among the world’s strictest abortion laws.
She was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
“I was deprived of my freedom for such an unjust reason,” Kenia earlier this week told a news conference with three other women who were similarly punished.
“I lost my youth, I lost my family, all my aspirations were taken