El Salvador Won't Pardon Women In Prison for Abortions or Miscarriages

[Judi Lynn]

El Salvador Won't Pardon Women In Prison for Abortions or Miscarriages
Yesterday 10:00pm

In January, a woman in El Salvador who'd been imprisoned for having a miscarriage was finally pardoned, having spent seven years behind bars. The woman, known as "Guadalupe," had been charged with having an abortion, an offense which was later changed to homicide. But while Guadalupe will be officially released today, 15 other women in her situation remain in jail.

The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto, a group dedicated to decriminalizing abortion in El Salvador, have been working together to secure the release of 17 women who are serving 3o to 40 years sentences for having obstetric emergencies that resulted in miscarriages. Only Guadalupe has won a pardon. Another woman finished her prison sentence and was released. The Agrupación Ciudadana announced today that they have learned that the legislature will refused to review pardon applications for any of the other 15 women.

Mónica Arango, the CRR's regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, said in a press release that the organizations won't stop until the women are pardoned: "The Center for Reproductive Rights will continue to shed light on the human rights violations faced by women in El Salvador, and we will not rest until the government reforms its laws to respect, protect, and fulfill women's rights to life and health."

http://jezebel.com/el-salvador-wont-pardon-women-in-prison-for-abortions-o-1686868584

(Short article, no more at link.)

[Warpy]

1. Right wing Christian males want those laws here

so that any woman who suffers miscarriage or stillbirth can be imprisoned for manslaughter.

Yes, they hate women just that much.

They've already tried to push bills criminalizing miscarriage through in Virginia twice.

[Judi Lynn]

2. What a shame we only seem to be able to watch with horror. They are obssessed with hatred.

Our only hope seems to be that there will be such deep-level resistance the people pushing this evil hatred toward women so hard will eventually stop being elected.

There's a very sinister, murderous hatred running in the conservative blood, which is seeming more apparent every day. In time, they will have to become aware either of their own depravity, or of the real resistance on the part of the human race.

It's time for change, now, more than ever.