World's Harshest Abortion Law Sent a Woman to Prison for 9 Years for a Stillbirth

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Whereas women from well-to-do families are able to pay for clandestine abortion services at private clinics, or fly to another country where abortion is legal, poor women,
36% : The absolute ban on abortion in El Salvador -- which is one of only four countries in Latin America with no exceptions for rape, incest or to save the life of the mother -- coupled with high rates of violence against women, leads to dire consequences for women and girls across the country.
35% : Between 2000 and 2011, the working group found, 129 women had been tried for abortion and homicide.
34% : El Salvador has one of the world's strictest bans on abortion and some of the harshest penalties in Latin America.
34% : The working group's review of Rogel's case, along with those of two other imprisoned women, concluded that El Salvador's total ban on abortion had led to the systematic criminalization of women who had suffered obstectric emergencies.
33% : A study by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that almost 60 percent of the accusations of abortion between 2002 and 2010 were first reported by medical professionals.

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