A woman has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment because she suffered a miscarriage.
However, her case was prosecuted as a “homicide” under El Salvador’s anti-abortion law.
Teodora Vásquez has so far spent 10 years in prison, during which she had filed an appeal against her conviction in 2007. Now, her appeal has been rejected and her conviction upheld by the tribunal which presided over her case.
Her lawyer, Victor Vigo, described the judgement as “speculative;” saying the tribunal had only repeated what it did in 2007 when Teodora’s case first came up.
“A tribunal must not speculate; it must look at the facts. They have no proof that she did the criminal act,” Vigo insisted.
Amnesty International has described El Salvador as “a nation known as the worst place in the world for women’s reproductive rights.”
The UK Independent reports that the strictly Catholic El Salvador operates “anti-abortion laws that make no exception for rape, incest or the health of the mother.”
A woman has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment because she suffered a miscarriage.
However, her case was prosecuted as a “homicide” under El Salvador’s anti-abortion law.
Teodora Vásquez has so far spent 10 years in prison, during which she had filed an appeal against her conviction in 2007. Now, her appeal has been rejected and her conviction upheld by the tribunal which presided over her case.
Her lawyer, Victor Vigo, described the judgement as “speculative;” saying the tribunal had only repeated what it did in 2007 when Teodora’s case first came up.
“A tribunal must not speculate; it must look at the facts. They have no proof that she did the criminal act,” Vigo insisted.
Amnesty International has described El Salvador as “a nation known as the worst place in the world for women’s reproductive rights.”
The UK Independent reports that the strictly Catholic El Salvador operates “anti-abortion laws that make no exception for rape, incest or the health of the mother.”
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