In central America, notorious for anti-abortion punishment, poor women lack the means for remedy available elsewhere, faced with the prospect of a child they cannot raise, or expecting in the wake of ...

Dozens of women are believed to have been wrongly imprisoned in El Salvador under suspicion of having had an abortion. Following campaigns by rights groups, a number of women who were convicted ...

Some women wore headbands reading "united we are stronger" Thousands of women marched in El Salvador's capital on Sunday against the country's total ban on abortions and its high femicide rate.

[Reuters] A court in El Salvador has ordered the release of a young woman sentenced to 30 years in prison for homicide following the death of her unborn child in 2012, authorities said on Monday.

Abortions are strictly forbidden in El Salvador. The sentence for violating the ban is 50 years in prison. The 22 year-old woman, who gave her name only as Beatriz, is the mother of a two-year-old ...

Maira Verónica Figueroa Marroquín was originally sentenced to 30 years for aggravated murder. El Salvador has some of the harshest abortion laws in the world. Terminations are banned in all ...

A woman in El Salvador has been handed down a 50-year jail sentence for having had an abortion, it was reported Monday. It was the first time that the maximum penalty has been applied. Pro ...

Vásquez is one of 17 women, known as “ Las 17” (“The 17”), who between 1999 and 2011 were sentenced following reported miscarriages, most on charges of aggravated homicide. El Salvador ...