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Miscarriage and Misogyny

My article “Locked up for suffering a miscarriage” appears in today’s edition of The L.A. Daily Journal and The S.F. Daily Journal. This article discusses “Las 17” and delves into the current practice in El Salvador, where women who are betrayed by their own bodies and hence suffer miscarriages or stillbirths, are then often charged by Salvadoran prosecutors with aggravated homicide and sentenced to up to 50 years in prison.
 

This is done under the auspices of El Salvador’s draconian abortion law, which is total. The complete abortion ban is has no exceptions. Not for rape, incest, non-viable fetus or impending death of the mother. Hence the charge is that these women who suffered miscarriages or still births caused the deaths or their fetuses or infants, even when there is zero evidence of attempted illegal abortion or mother’s intent to harm the unborn or newborn.

Full article off copyright and now available: