Prohibition of abortion: El Salvador frees women arrested for miscarriage | Issues of Women’s Rights

The women were jailed for six to 13 years under strict abortion laws in the region.

Authorities in El Salvador have released three women who have been in prison for 6 to 13 years. stricter laws against abortion after the abortion, the human rights organization

The women lost their babies due to “emergencies” during pregnancy, reports ACDATEE.

They were released on Thursday, and reunited with their families for Christmas after their prison sentence for gross murder was commuted. The women who were released were known by their first names only.

Karen spent six years in prison, Kathy eight, and Evelyn 13, ACDATEE member Morena Herrera told AFP.

“It is gratifying for all of us who have been fighting for the release of all women who have been unjustly imprisoned as a result of a traumatic event in the wake of this brutal and inhumane law,” Herrera added.

Savior prohibits regular abortion, and an abortion can send a woman to prison for up to eight years. But judges often find women guilty of extrajudicial killings, which can be punishable by up to 50 years in prison.

Many women are sued for medical attention to pregnancy problems, on suspicion of attempted abortion.

Fourteen other women remain in prison for the same reasons Karen, Kathy and Evelyn, according to ACDATEE. “We continue to fight for the rights of all other women in prison,” Herrera said.

Campaigners are encouraging the government of El Salvador accepting legal abortion when a woman’s life is in danger, the unborn child is incurable, or if the pregnancy has occurred as a result of rape.

But their efforts were thwarted in September, when President Nayib Bukele abolished the constitutional amendment proposed by his government, which would have opened the door to legalizing abortion.

Catholicism is evangelism Anti-abortion groups often stage protests on social media in an effort to break the law on abortion in this country. They argue that the victims are unborn children, not women in prison or their families.

The United Nations has repeatedly condemned it El Salvador City violation of the law on women suspected of having an abortion.

Some countries in Latin America, however, have recently been embroiled in controversy on abortion in what women’s rights activists called the “green wave”.

After decades of fighting Argentine women’s rights activists, The country’s parliament in December approved an abortion, when Ecuador was criticized abortion in rape cases in April.

The method is legal in Uruguay, Cuba, as well as in Mexico City and three Mexican states.

In September, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled in our favor that the charge of abortion is illegal.

El Salvador is one of the few countries in Latin America – along with Nicaragua, Suriname, Dominican Republic and Honduras – where abortion is illegal in any case, according to the Global Doctors for Choice development team.