The Guardian: El Salvador: meet the women who dare to challenge the anti-abortion state
“El Salvador has one of the world’s strictest abortion laws, with abortion a crime even when a woman’s life is at risk. Human rights activists say this has created a system of persecution in the country’s hospitals as well as its courts, where any woman — and particularly a poor, young woman who loses her baby — is suspect…” (Provost, 4/17).