14/12/2017

El Savadorian court upholds 30-year-jail sentence for lady who had an abortion

miscarriageAn El Salvadorian Court  upheld a 30 years’ jail sentence handed down to Teodora Vásquez in 2007, after she suffered a miscarriage which was prosecuted as a “homicide”.
A tribunal in the strictly Catholic country, turned down an appeal filed on behalf of Vasquez who has already spent 10 years in prison. According to Amnesty International, 3 out of 8 maternal deaths in El Salvador, are suicides by pregnant girls under the age of 19.
The agency described El Salvador as “a nation known as the worst place in the world for women’s reproductive rights, and a nation where anti-abortion laws makes no exception for rape, incest or the health of the mother.”
Amnesty International claims that when El Salvador prohibited all abortions, even if pregnancy results from rape or incest; or if it poses threat to a woman’s life, the woman must carry the pregnancy to term.
“It is estimated that between 1998 and 2013, more than 600 women were jailed after being accused of having had an abortion,” says the Centre for Reproductive Rights.
Nancy Northup, the centre’s president and CEO said the decision was “another slap in the face for Teodora, who never committed any crime”.
“The Salvadoran court is perpetuating the criminal prosecution of women who suffer pregnancy complications, denying women their dignity, freedom and rights”
“El Salvador’s abortion law criminalises and wrongfully imprisons women. Today the Salvadoran court chose to deny Teodora her due process.”

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