Abortion In El Salvador

El Salvador has one of the strictest and most archaic anti-abortion laws in the world with a total ban on abortion, even in in cases of rape or incest, if the mother’s life is in danger, or if the fetus is not viable outside the uterus. Since 1998, the adopted legislation has increasingly made it more dangerous for women to seek medical attention when in reference to their reproductive health. These laws allow prosecutors to convert many abortion charges to aggravated homicide, which carries a sentence of 30-50 years.

“El Salvador is extremely strict when it comes down to enforcing the conservative approach with governing the people” (Rosas). “A constitutional amendment in 1998 defined life to begin at conception” (Geneva). Rosas says that the main spark that lead up to the prohibition was recovering from the civil war. Abortion is not only a problem in El Salvador but a problem worldwide. But the injustice in El Salvador is where the major troubles spread. “El Salvador is extremely conservative, and the Catholic Church’s influence extends into political decision making” (Rosas). The women undoubtedly have no say whatsoever. Instead, the government and laws overpower their opinions. She appeals to her audience by bringing up the topic that any free society should be considered to the physical right of the woman. Women and young girls in El Salvador are being forced to interact in sexual activities by men, yet the Catholic Church thinks elsewise. Nowhere does the law state anything about miscarriages or abortions, yet women are still convicted and imprisoned for these

While Latin America’s lack of reproductive rights would seem to be common knowledge, many are unaware of how exactly women in Latin American countries are affected. In a fairly large number of countries, abortion is illegal. In regards to this, “in 2008, 12 percent of maternal deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean were due to unsafe abortions.” (Mane, 2013) 95% of the abortions

Many countries in Latin America already prohibit or severely restrict abortion. In addition, current pieces of legislation such as the Helms and Hyde Amendments prohibit US aid toward funding abortions abroad with few exceptions such as cases due to incest or rape. However, in light of the potential effects of the Zika virus, the US is rethinking its stance on abortion rights in Latin America, signaling to a possibility in a change in its stance.

Latin America is one region of the world known for its similarities across national borders, paired with stark differences. While Latin American countries share cultural elements such as, language, religion, and a colonial history, each society has developed differently in terms of political, economic, and social organization. One major difference across Latin America is individual nations relationships with family planning and abortion systems. Each country 's stance on the morality of abortion, contraception, reproduction, and sexuality, differs from its neighbors and the region at large. In some cases the difference is visible within national borders, such as in Mexico, where abortion is only legal inside the capital city (Fondo Maria). In other cases the countries themselves are homogenous in law, but differ greatly from the legal positions of their neighbors. Due to such variation it is impossible to claim that Latin America as a whole aligns with one attitude concerning family planning and abortion. Additionally, both systems are simultaneously present in countries creating a complex and intriguing system of reproductive health. Due to this variety, this paper focuses on Chile and Cuba as examples of two opposing extremes. In Cuba abortion is legal under all circumstances as compared to Chile, where abortion was historically criminalized. These two country 's situations ask the question of how family planning programs and abortion rates connect with and influence one

This made me think about what is going on in Florida and how many women in Florida, many want to seek abortions but are unable to due to the laws. Abortions can help save a mother’s life and even can save a child a life of misery. El Salvador is one of the five countries that actually send women on trial and sent to actual prison because their body suffered from a miscarriage, stillborn birth, or other obstetric emergency. What interested me was that, this is life and this nothing that these women have a right over. There is nothing that they can do, or anyone that can reverse what they went through, and how it was caused. Without adequate healthcare, without money, and without a lot of other necessary things to support a baby or to even find out if one is pregnant, is a hassle and can take a financial toll on those who just do not have it. While, the United States are teaming up with El Salvadorian officials and are trying to help bring about ways to help the women and ways that they can maybe set up alternative terms, is a big step. Many officials have asked both governments to continue helping the women, and at least try to change things and revisit the cases, of the women. Mainly because, imprisoning women who have no control of their health and of their maternal health should not be imprisoned, this is a human’s rights violation, and something has to be

When discussing the idea of abortion, there are usually debates around Pro-choice or Pro-life. However, in El Salvador there is an abortion ban law, which means that women have no choice as to having an abortion or not.

So draconian are the country’s pro-life laws that even women who lose their unborn babies during medical emergencies can be jailed. Such is the case for 17 women, known as “Las 17,” who are serving jail sentences of up to 40 years for allegedly murdering their foetuses after suffering miscarriages, stillbirths or other life threatening complications. Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez, one of Las 17, was granted an unprecedented pardon last month. Is this fair or is it compatible. Hundreds have fallen victim to El Salvador's abortion laws. El Salvador are imprisoning women for having miscarriages that can not necessarily be their fault, including a cancer-sufferer who died while in prison for an apparent aggravated homicide following a miscarriage. El Salvador’s abortion laws have caused a mass amount off feud all around the world due to false imprisonment, like a miscarriage or

Abortion is one of those topicsthat will always have exceptions, will be a 50/50 decision and the point of views willcontinually change. About twenty four percent of Roman Catholics had abortions in theyear 2014. The second largest group, by religion. The Roman Catholic Church doesn’tbelieve in pro-choice. They believe you can’t be both Catholic and pro-choice, meaningyou can’t support legal abortion, or vote politically for someone who is pro-choice. “ ​Thestandard line for pro-choice Catholics is that abortion is wrong for them because theChurch forbids it, but they cannot in good conscience impose their faith upon unwillingnon-Catholics by making abortion illegal. A Catholic can be pro-choice and allow otherpeople to choose abortion while they remain personally opposed to the practice.”If you conceived a child under any circumstances, in the Catholic Church’s pointof view it is wrong and an evil sin. Abortion may be legal in some states, under certaincircumstances, but no matter what abortion is still the killing of an unborn

It was a sunny midafternoon in a shiny new global-economy mall in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, and a young woman I was hoping to meet appeared to be getting cold feet. She had agreed to rendezvous with a go-between not far from the Payless shoe store and then come to a nearby hotel to talk to me. She was an hour late. Alone in the hotel lobby, I was feeling nervous; I was stood up the day before by another woman in a similar situation. I had been warned that interviewing anyone who had had an abortion in El Salvador would be difficult. The problem was not simply that in this very Catholic country a shy 24-year-old unmarried woman might feel shame telling her story to an older man. There was also the criminal stigma. And this

Abortion is currently illegal in Brazil, with women facing up to three years in jail. The only exceptions for the law are in cases of rape, when pregnancy poses a risk to the mother’s life,

The debate over abortion is split between Pro-Choice Advocates, who simply believe that it is the women’s right to choose if she wants or doesn’t want to have an abortion performed. While Pro-Life Advocates argue that life begins at conception, thus an abortion is considered a murderous act. In theory most Hispanics would fall in the Pro- Life bracket, due to religion, but the truth is that many are simply uneducated on the matter. Abortion is legal in the United States; it has been lawful since 1973 with the Supreme Court verdict of Roe v Wade, that ruled

It is located in the south of America bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay. There are 44 million people living in this country which are divided in three different ethnic groups: White people composed mainly of Spanish and Italian which cover 97%, mestizo a mix of white and Amerindian and other non-white groups of people whuch cover 3% of the population.The official language spoken in Argentina is the Spanish however there are other languages spoken here as the Italian, English, German, French and other indigenous languages.

ABORTION IN CHILE Why does Chile change it ́s opinion from permitting abortion to 541 days of jail if that happens? The military dictatorship could answe that there is nothing for what you need to practice abortion because of advances in medicine. I will try to describe the Restrictive Laws of abortion and consequences of it, problems of health post abortion, and ways of abortion, safe and unsafe, Chiles opinion of abortion is that is completely inhuman and harmful for women and the baby coming. Now days Chile has prohibited abortion because advances on medicine make you have no excuses for that. Current laws against abortion are codified in the penal code articles 324 to 345 under the title “Crimes and Offences

El Salvador’s abortion ban is still firmly in place despite the danger that Zika virus presents to the pregnant mothers and unborn babies.