El Salvador woman freed after six years in jail following stillbirth

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

El Salvador woman freed after six years in jail following stillbirth

Cindy Erazo was accused of aggravated homicide after an obstetric emergency

Liz Ford
@lizfordguardian
Thu 24 Sep 2020 14.50 BST

A woman sentenced to 30 years in jail after a stillbirth that was judged to be her fault has been released from jail in El Salvador.

Cindy Erazo, 29, from San Salvador, was granted conditional freedom on Wednesday after six years in jail.

Morena Herrera, head of the Citizen’s Group for the Decriminalisation of Abortion, said that Erazo, who has a son aged 10, had an obstetric emergency when she was eight months pregnant. She was accused of attempting to end the pregnancy and charged with aggravated homicide. A year after her conviction, her sentenced was reduced to 10 years.

Dozens of women have been convicted for manslaughter, homicide and aggravated homicide after having miscarriages, stillbirths and other obstetric emergencies since El Salvador introduced a total ban on abortion in 1998.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/24/el-salvador-woman-freed-after-six-years-in-jail-following-stillbirth

[katmondoo]

1. This could happen here. The pukes would love it.

[procon]

2. Heads up my sisters!

This is the future women can expect under Trump and his swing toward the religious right. Imagine being imprisoned because your uterus had a medical malfunction.

It's like that Republican idiot who believed women had some magical ability to tell their uterus not to let a rapist's sperm to impregnate them.