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From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban
She was in labor, fainted, and woke up in handcuffs.
In El Salvador, nearly 200 women have been incarcerated in the last 26 years after having obstetric emergencies, like miscarriages and stillbirths. Maria Hinojosa and producer Monica Morales-Garcia travel to the country to speak with women who have been incarcerated under El Salvador’s anti-abortion laws, some of the strictest in the world.
Through interviews, documents, and archival materials, this investigation paints a clear and disturbing picture of the women who suffer most when a country stretches the definition of abortion beyond its meaning and then bans them all without exception.
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This investigation was produced by Futuro Investigates and Latino USA and co-published in partnership with El Faro English.
How El Salvador Incarcerates Women with Obstetric Emergencies
What does a no-exceptions abortion ban look like? We went to El Salvador, one of the countries with the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the world, to investigate how women have been incarcerated after losing their babies.
Reporter’s Notebook
What The Feminist Activists in El Salvador Gave Me: Reporter’s Notebook
They’re fighting to free incarcerated women in a country where the definition of abortion expands to miscarriages. They gave me hope in a dark extremist time.
Podcast: From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban
She was in labor, fainted, and woke up in handcuffs.
In El Salvador, nearly 200 women have been incarcerated in the last 26 years after having obstetric emergencies, like miscarriages and stillbirths. Maria Hinojosa and producer Monica Morales-Garcia travel to the country to speak with women who have been incarcerated under El Salvador’s anti-abortion laws, some of the strictest in the world.
Through interviews, documents, and archival materials, this investigation paints a clear and disturbing picture of the women who suffer most when a country stretches the definition of abortion beyond its meaning and then bans them all without exception.
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