El Salvador Woman Who Had An Abortion Jailed For Homicide
A woman in El Salvador has been jailed after being accused of stabbing her baby six times in an illegal abortion. The Central American country has some of the strictest abortion laws in the world, completely banning the procedure with no exceptions – not even when the pregnancy is a threat to the mother’s life. Lesly Ramírez, 21, lost her baby on June 17, 2020, when she was five months pregnant....