El Salvador: Where women may be jailed [for murder] for miscarrying

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BBC News - El Salvador: Where women may be jailed for miscarrying

Absolutely horrendous.

More than 200 women were reported to the police between 2000 and 2011, of whom 129 were prosecuted and 49 convicted - 26 for murder (with sentences of 12 to 35 years) and 23 for abortion, according to research by Citizens' Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion. Seven more have been convicted since 2012.
The study underlines that these women are overwhelmingly poor, unmarried and poorly educated - and they are usually denounced by public hospital staff. Not a single criminal case originated from the private health sector where thousands of abortions are believed to take place annually.

What century are we living in?

 

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BBC News - El Salvador: Where women may be jailed for miscarrying

Absolutely horrendous.

More than 200 women were reported to the police between 2000 and 2011, of whom 129 were prosecuted and 49 convicted - 26 for murder (with sentences of 12 to 35 years) and 23 for abortion, according to research by Citizens' Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion. Seven more have been convicted since 2012.
The study underlines that these women are overwhelmingly poor, unmarried and poorly educated - and they are usually denounced by public hospital staff. Not a single criminal case originated from the private health sector where thousands of abortions are believed to take place annually.

What century are we living in?

Bonkers but I'm not sure what century has to do with anything.

We live in a country where it's just been made illegal to abort based on gender. Which is not only mental in suggesting you can be killed but not be the victim of sexism, but also invalidates all other legal and moral arguments for abortion - because it implies the subject is a person with attributes and rights.

Granted that everything that is done to legitimise abortion is convoluted and incoherent but this ruling cannot fail to mean that the law implicitly acknowledges that it allows the killing of inconvenient persons except where it offends the doctrine of secularia law.

I'm not sure El Salvador is any more mixed up than that.

Ps the last thing we need is another abortion debate, but i suggest our descent into the ancient past in these areas leaves our pretences to a self defined (and already on the way out) modernity a little bit hubristic