EL SALVADOR: FAILURE TO DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION IS A TERRIBLE BLOW TO HUMAN RIGHTS
04/27/2018
EL SALVADOR: FAILURE TO DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION IS A TERRIBLE BLOW TO HUMAN RIGHTS
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The failure to pass a reform to decriminalize abortion during El Salvador’s latest legislative cycle is a sickening step backwards for human rights, said Amnesty International today.
“El Salvador’s lawmakers have blood on their hands after declining to even discuss the reform to decriminalize abortion. This desperately needed bill would have saved the lives of countless women and girls who are needlessly put at risk by the total ban on abortion. The wasted opportunity to end this injustice is a terrible blow to human rights in El Salvador,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International.
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly missed several opportunities to discuss the reform to decriminalize abortion during the legislative cycle that effectively came to a close at the end of Thursday’s session.
El Salvador is one of very few countries in the world where abortion is still banned under all circumstances. At least 23 women and girls remain in prison under the total abortion ban.
More:
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/el-salvador-failure-to-decriminalize-abortion-is-a-terrible-blow-to-human-rights/
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I'm guessing not.
These folks are still mired in the Middle Ages.
