Here's What Happens in a Country Where Women Are Punished for Having Abortions Maria Murriel - PRI's The World
go to original April 1, 2016

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said women should be punished for having abortions if the procedure is illegal in the US. In El Salvador, women are punished for having abortions.

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Some Salvadoran women say the near-total ban on abortions ends up punishing those who haven't even attempted to terminate their pregnancies. Paula Avila-Guillen — a lawyer and program specialist for the Center for Reproductive Rights in El Salvador — says women who experience spontaneous miscarriages often end up being prosecuted on suspicion of aborting their babies.

"If they cannot prove that it was a natural miscarriage," she says, "they are under suspicion of having had an abortion and they risk prosecution by the government."

...Colombia and Mexico City recently relaxed their abortion restrictions. But in most other Latin American countries, abortion remains strictly illegal.

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Related: Spoiler Alert: Women Are Already Being Punished For Having Abortions (Think Progress)

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