An El Salvador woman has just been sentenced to 50 years in prison for miscarriage. El Salvador is the country with the strictest abortion ban on the Earth!
On July 1, the court of El Salvador (a republic in Central America) handed a 50-year prison sentence to a pregnant woman because she was the cause of the death of a child.
According to El Salvador authorities, the woman gave birth in June 2020 and then had a “physical impact” that caused the baby’s death. However, a feminist organization claims the woman miscarried in the bathroom at home.
El Salvador has one of the strictest abortion laws in the world. The country prohibits all forms of termination of pregnancy except under justifiable circumstances.
The El Salvador case is making headlines around the world, especially after the US Supreme Court overturned a historic ruling to ban abortion, sparking a wave of protests and protests.
