You know, my name is theodore, at a time investigating, im 34 years old. Ive been in prison for 10 years and 6 months. Second, the abortion is a crime. Thanks to our constitution and some of the word. And so one of the few countries that bands abortions, in all cases, the human rights organizations take advantage of womens language cation, answer, forced propaganda and lies. They make the murderers of their unborn daughters and sons. Its a cruel act. Its a barbaric act. The as the who missed it was the 13th of july, 2007 due at the name and i was 9 months pregnant is that i was working in the central san salvador. And the pain was unbearable to montana when i started making calls me the settling. My baby is about to be born and i said, i can stand the pain. Come help me. So simply so many of the police said they would come right. But they never did know you that the we have to look into my baby was born there and then germany, i fainted. The look at when i woke up and i tried to get help the. Why did you kill her and asked me. I havent killed any one. I said the applicant, she said yes, you killed your daughter for nick. Now you have to pay the time, i didnt mind, i kept passing out and i just remember waking up and then same thing again when i was almost at the a dental office, ive been imprisoned ever since the middle, the 1st they said it was an abortion in it, when they changed it to aggravated homicide, they sentenced me to 30 years. The when, when the door opened, i didnt want to look inside the any of it, but it in the community. I didnt want to talk to anyone. I didnt want anyone to come to me just so we had an enemy live in. I wanted my baby, but id already bought clothes for her that that was so excited. Let me see if the machine women sleep on the floor at 1st. And i was left on the floor for 7 months. And as i used to live there crying and staring at the wall, wondering when id be able to leave the club. And when the truth would come out during the day that i was afraid that i would never get out again. I thought i wont survive. Im going to die your money in a moment till the end of the hearing in january 2008. I didnt have a lawyer to defend me. If my parents had given a lawyer, 700. 00 to take my case, i guess of the slippery damage. But if he demanded that they give him land cattle house and the car by the gentleman that allow me to my parents, asked me if they should give him the house. But i couldnt leave them on the street. So i decided not to have a lawyer. I prefer to stay in prison longer if it meant my parents and my son would still have a place to live. As you gave me sad that as an able to get out of the i dont know how the years went by. And my son grew up without me. The 25 is my parents were always worried because they didnt have money to visit me. I was 21 and i was born one day when he was 3 years old. I got pregnant again. Whats the name was to me and i was very excited because i wanted to have 2 children the and okay. My kid instead of what i want most just to be with on her gabrielle. You know coming but i missed the best of his childhood. No, i loved him more than ever, mac and i loved him from the day he was born and we loved him until the day i die. And they are with delta care. But they disappeared. The popping in a portion goes against their nature against their maternal instincts, against their own interests. After an abortion women suffer clinical depression. But this kind of depression is important. These women have killed girls and boys who have the right to live. The other one might just any more, had more than 3000 women live in the prison and that kind of, they dont even have a bed or a blanket to sleep under. No. Yeah, theres no running water. The fact that the food is terrible. Theyre only 6 toilets for all these women. The am with a company. I met many other inmates. I never realized they were in prison on similar charges. I thought i was alone, august, august 1. But it wasnt they dont know it. I think we realize there were many women accused of the same crime. Today we were already friends, but we hadnt talked about our cases, them on board for so fast, fund them in the head and think that when they said 30 years, my 1st thought was look for the supplement, ive lost everything. The thought of going to, since i havent seen my daughter since ive been here, the thing was that i, i dont know how shes doing. I know nothing. When i saw i had a fight with the father of my 1st daughter, she was 9 years old, dominion was saying i was 4 months pregnant and thats what they hit me. And the baby died. I started bleeding a lot. My daughter saw me later last time that i just remember that i was given an injection in the hospital and they put me on a bed, but thats so much thats it. Then i woke up around 7 in the evening. I was handcuffed and many of them they told me not to ask questions and to stay where i was thinking that i was alone in the room. But in the middle of the day of my hearing, there was no evidence against me. They only the testimony of one witness, the dna test, people in the then who was the witness . My daughters father who hit you yesterday and you couldnt no federal since the prosecutor was on their side. They didnt allow me lawyer to speak. And minute in there. I dont know, they didnt allow my father to speak bible man, and i dont, he was my only witness. And its like that on the bottom. Ive been here for almost 11 years and they sent him speech authority. What happened to you . Nicholas . I was accused of aggravated homicide. Yes, dinah, i was at the hospital. A problem there. If i ask why i was handcuffed for them and they said i was charged with murder telling me that i have killed my own door. So nick asked, i was shocking. No, no, no, no, you wont. I fell down. It was an accident that fell off my office about my daughter a me had and they didnt let me see her enrollment accessing in them. And i can sit on the need a many, you dont get they all anyway, i did, it was going to be a, i didnt understand what was happening and, and because i havent seen it, he said, but, and did it the doctors blame. You dont dis called the police or the photo. Ok again, i dont have that. And then i didnt understand. You didnt give me an explanation. So they took me to the Police Station and i went up some yes i was there for about 8 days. Then they brought me here, james, i had them back and then another one of my daughter is, is 15 years old and the other as well. Funny, but i got pregnant after being raped by 3 men and im one of them was my brother. He went to me, my mother, after my mother died, i lost my baby. 20 days later, i was arrested during my babys funeral. I think i mentioned the enemy said what the sailor policemen were standing at the door of the church. I asked them, why are you looking for me again . And they said my name. I said yes, thats me. They said you are under a risk for murder. I asked why . I didnt kill anyone. They took my babys body out of the coffin and threw it in the back of the pickup truck. They took my baby and they took me to the home. I left my 2 daughters behind. My parents were no longer there to take care of them. I didnt want to leave them with my brother, the one who had hurt me. My brother and his friends have their families. While my daughters are suffering from any age and theyre having a hard time on their own. And im suffering without the senior for serious life has been really hard on me in that regard. And thats a good. Yeah. Shes sort of my daughter. So if im the only one, maybe they just got it wrong. And it was maybe they just made a mistake, try to thank god, it was too late to find the again, when i learned that there were more of us, i got very angry. And you will be when to see, because it means that el salvador sees women as property having in that im way to set them up as the stand up to them. Where is the best in this . It has to be laws allow them to rule over us unless you can go back next. Im going to send this one out, but we cannot allow women to continue to be imprisoned for pregnancy emergencies in sales to not do anything about this situation. Were not at the end of the set up with some of the and weve quite strong relationships. Weve decided to unite and defend ourselves. And as a mentor. Ringback lawyers with the Citizens Group for the criminalization of Abortion Team in 2012, and im glad they called us to 17 them with the way that we agreed that they would take on our cases and met. And that the 1st of us to come out of prison by whatever means for that it would be the 1st to denounce the conditions inside the prison yet, and a suggestion for sound move in the venture, the 5 at the moment. Okay. And the masters told us they needed just looks person to represent us when the girls chose me to play the game for. So thats how it all started. These days are special for each one of us. We know we are in prison, but we have our spiritual freedom the see the money in fantasy, the bill or in c side, about a typical him. This is we started with 17 women. Now there are more of the systems, 2009. We have identified a 129 cases and will hand this ago, the owner, but in addition to political lobbying mobilization, im campaigning now. The Citizens Group has a legal team. Duct follows the phone cases payments, or if the cases are not just going in the court room, they all want in the streets and looking them on the go to the a, b s m l m party present to the penal code reform to decriminalize abortion level because the state, the lawyers, so they dont dine these conditions on as well. Im president of the Legislative Assembly loading opinion presenting the bill alongside womens groups and request that when the last you, when is the result of break when the mothers life is at risk. When its a result of Human Trafficking and when the case involves a minor because theyve got so separate out that they may notice they are, those are pretty madison was there seems to contradict the 2nd article of the constitution in finding the right to life of every person in that age would i be the best, but as soon as they faced with pressure from social organizations to decriminalize abortion, the catholic church, i objected to these measures. I think the archbishop called on the legislature not to change the penal code was on us. Thats all the because you and thats how you go, they go up and then you see some of them will get out because if we cant take a look at the percentages for them, the width of the members of the legislature will see that if they vote the lines of portions they will be going against the vast majority of the population, the field which is christian. Yeah. Collect also to see on the constitution says that life begins at the moment of conception. So i dont see why abortion should be judged less severely than aggravated homicide. Ive come across from the changing the charges violates due process. Theyre trying to impose longer sentences. Abortion carries a sentence of 2 to 8 years in philadelphia, also to learn a lot more credit. The class in the middle or upper class women who have more money have 2. 00 options and in the future they go to a private clinic and pay over 1000. 00 for an abortion, for they go abroad for the procedure would have been by you. So dont de larry i lose so i would as kind of win back in with that murder is now considered a human right to my mothers right. This is an ideological relativism that for me as a politician, is an ideological upfront to the west of america. And its citizens and pick on from very got going back to this is the largest genocide in human history. Much greater than the one carried out during the 2nd world war. And i say one the other. But again, if youre not already selling partner states, he has not reviewed cases of miscarriages that have led to womens imprisonment department. The customer, thats not what it does when it comes to miscarriages. No woman is being persecuted for having a miscarriage. While the best part of the time, you know, woman should go to jail for having an abortion. The frequent fact of what im a student, unless im not because i was contacted by Amnesty International ever taking this case will bundle. So let me know exclusively handle cases like this. So in seattle, i believe it is essential for justice. Charge against a dora was aggravated homicide. Let me see major contradictions here to the office. One other thing of the killing of a newborn think they are 13 to 14 weeks gestation. Few now my name who was born alive, but died of parent natal 6, you know, fix up late enough that is signs of a 6 year by drowning were found. She loved it because you born died of parent 8 till the 6 year. She could not have died by drowning somebody. These things are mutually exclusive film or renee to lets fix it as a natural cause of death and up to that it cannot be one on the other at the same time. Of course, i mean what the, i dont think the judge has even read the autopsy of talk to you from the la city and the when i read to doras file, which is very extensive, i must admit, i saw this woman is guilty by the file intentionally leads you to believe that she is guilty to that correctly, but does it happen when you sit down and read it more carefully . You wonder how is it possible that a woman who wants to have an abortion calls the police 5 times to ask them for help here, but i get, i have a great a, this is the minute the lord he cried. The medical evidence is conclusive in memphis, the she had a pre term birth to have that, so i sent all of our option with heavy bleeding and lost consciousness. This is for medical history is consistent with the information. She provided the money for us to sign, but i saw i was 9 months pregnant mrs. I was robbed when i was on my way to send salvatore with my sick mother and at the name when i was robbed on the bus. Isnt that on the internet . The man tried to steal my phone and jumped towards me, so im gonna send the landing right on my belly say in the midst of a blow to the abdomen. And the final try mr. Can cause plus central abrupt sion, which was probably the case with theodora. Because when the baby came, the plus center came with it for those that because of the injury to the abdomen. This is the most logical conclusion. The 2 door like many others, were stigmatized and convicted without evidence. Ok and if you provo instigate an abortion that is if you give the patient the idea or assist her in any way and youre also go to prison for 2 to 5 years. And thats why Health Care Workers report everything to the police, miscarriages, or still, birds. They report any kind of termination of pregnancy. And having said this is massaging stigmatization and persecution for being a woman. Okay, so its a woman has a miscarriage. The 1st thing people think is that it was intentional or said when a woman becomes pregnant, she loses all her rights and automatically becomes an incubator. All her rights are violated, starting with the right to life, liberty telling me the stomach, which on the police, i mean we are fighting for this error to be corrected, but the judges, after 6 months of fighting court of appeals agreed to review the case that one does have the fence. Yeah, i dont think i dont think thats the current status. Its just almost like government us all know that the advice on the radio and wed like to invite you to join us tomorrow. Its an important thing that we need the support of all of us that will be gathering in front of the see the room and then theres quotes to support to, to and i to hearing apple. Yeah. And the app, the app is a crucial day for her and she needs us the. So itd be the from 7 am in front of the courthouse to show your support and her site to regain have freedom. The more for me here and whats your familys help is the persistence, the what i would like is for her son to have his mothers love with any of them. He has had to live with his grandparent and not his mother. Thisll night and well pray to god that the case will be resolved and she will get her freedom back. Let us down even. Shes been oppressed for so long and unable to take care of her son, family books. We hope it goes back to the faulty investigation. The facts are all there. If this is based on your investigation is tell the innocent or guilty made of a fuse. Thats for the judges to decide based on the evidence in the mind. Just presenting evidence, i think what is that going on so that so many other pro, instead of going to be clear, was the child still born or could it have been killed or lets see, last night that nothing in the autopsy confirms the child ever drew breath bitterly, so it was still born. What i think it didnt draw breath the the what happened to your baby . I mean, i was 9 months pregnant when my baby came. Ive been imprisoned ever since. 11 years in prison. One testify how many people are in the same situation. Lets say 23 of us are accused of this crime that we did not commit from a data for months. And how were these years in prison knowing you were innocent and been very difficult benefits. I based hard times in prison instead of me course im old daughter thing im paying for a crime. I didnt commit to the mental goodness. I mean, what is your message to the word world and the countrys lot of boards and its still criminalized on the west side city. My message is to review all the cases of women who have been convicted of a crime similar to mine the same. And that we did not commit these crimes. We need our freedom back because its our right look at them. It isnt that we have a right to freedom. They have violated our freedom. That not only my freedom but of many women. And it does have the state did not support us but discriminated against us as women federal. But we have the strength and courage to keep fighting here. But as they get a chance to review the what are you asking from the judges . Like i said, im going to give me back my freedom. Gimme a question. Im going to vista because i am innocent. Split case because i have a family to fight for. Now if i mean, if we can chat such a thing, because i have people who love me and need me to be with them, thats all is the kind of most of the 30 year sentence was upheld collaboratively. How can the prosecutor say should killed without the evidence of this kind of justice is not justice as ill see you. And that must be something that was easy. The list set up with this situation. Weve had enough of the violence against women people of the world please to pull to salvador. We are becoming more and more impoverished, but we are not pool. We on congress by the patriarchal capital, the system, the we women, will keep fighting. This is an injustice. The flower arrangement was given to the legislature by a group of activists and family members of women in prison for Health Complications that lead to miscarriage. That as for clemency for 17 women who were sentenced to prison terms of up to 40 years, they were found guilty of aggravated homicide. To see the distress signal from the nails, salvador ocean is precipitated cases. The selling it is a country that has some of the wells strictest abortion laws that have delayed a ruling on whether to free a woman who was sentenced to 30 years in prison after she gave birth to a still born baby. Human