Friday, December 20, 2013

In El Salvador, women go to jail for miscarriages...

In El Salvador, women are locked away in prison for years, taking them away from children and families in dire need of their support, for having miscarriages.

PBS aired a story Tuesday on the program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly about the victims of El Salvador’s extreme abortion laws — women who have miscarriages, even without knowing they are pregnant, and are then jailed for homicide.

El Salvador’s bottom-line abortion laws have rendered all instances of abortion illegal since 1997, even in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the mother’s life.

Cristina Quintanilla was 18 and close to term when she suffered a miscarriage.

“I was dizzy because of the anesthesia and blood loss, and I saw a man wearing blue asking for my name,” Quintanilla said, describing her emergency trip to the hospital. “He said, ‘You’re under arrest for the murder of your child.’” Full story...

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