Human Rights Group Seeks Pardon for Salvadoran Women Imprisoned for Miscarriages

[niyad]

(do not kid yourselves. this is exactly what some of the woman-haters of the reichwing would like to see here. oh, I forget, IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED!!!!)


Human Rights Group Seeks Pardon for Salvadoran Women Imprisoned for Miscarriages


Human rights groups are calling for the pardon of 15 women imprisoned in El Salvador for suffering a miscarriage.




The women were jailed for attempting or inducing abortion, which is illegal in El Salvador. Amnesty International is now calling on El Salvador’s Parliamentary Assembly to issue a pardon for these women when their cases come before that body in the coming months. Earlier this year, another woman was granted a pardon by El Salvador’s Parliamentary Assembly after serving seven years of a 30-year sentence for terminating her pregnancy.

“El Salvador has one of the most draconian abortion laws in the world, criminalizing abortion on all grounds, even when a woman or girl’s life or health is in danger and in cases of rape,” Amnesty International said in a statement. “Women and girls suspected of having illegal abortions are also often cruelly and deliberately charged with homicide.”

In the US, Indiana woman Purvi Patel received a 20- year sentence for feticide and child neglect earlier this month after having suffered a miscarriage. The criminal conviction and sentence came despite little evidence that Patel took any abortion-inducing substances or that the fetus lived after being delivered. Patel’s attorney plans to appeal the verdict, and there is a petition to tell Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and the Indiana State Legislature to repeal the state’s feticide law, which threatens all pregnant women with criminal prosecution for miscarriage.

“No woman in tragic circumstances should have to endure the cruel and unusual punishment of criminal prosecution for a miscarriage,” said Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation.

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/04/28/human-rights-group-seeks-pardon-for-el-salvadorian-women-imprisoned-for-miscarriages/

[AuntPatsy]

1. Yes it is happening today and in the so called land of the free

[niyad]

2. this country is so far away from what we were taught (lied to) in school that it is almost

as if we are living in an alternate universe.

[AuntPatsy]

3. Strange that you used that wording I have strongly felt the same, I'm torn between

Rage and dis pair but thankfully still believe in the small things enough so that I never stop trying

[niyad]

4. "illegitimati non carburundum" --VERY bastardized latin for "don't let the bastards grind

you down."

I refuse to give up, give in, give way. just think how much it pisses them off that we refuse to cede the world to them.

[AuntPatsy]

5. I have to memorize that phrase, you cou,d feel it when saying it

And yes they do get angry and fearful when they realize you are no longer listening,

[Novara]

6. Not just land of the free, but WHERE ABORTION IS LEGAL

We're jailing our own for using a constitutionally protected right. They've warped reproductive law so thoroughly.

[niyad]

7. the insanity and woman-hating has abandoned all pretense of caring about women's

health or anything else.

[niyad]

8. . . .

[AuntPatsy]

9. Kicking