Salvadoran Woman Becomes First Person to Be Granted Asylum Due to Regressive Abortion Laws
Mar 28, 2017, 3:34pm Kathy Bougher
After giving birth in the latrine of her home in 2011, an unconscious Maria Teresa Rivera was taken to a public hospital. There, she was accused of provoking an abortion and sent to jail.
Last week, Maria Teresa Rivera of El Salvador was granted political asylum in Sweden based on her imprisonment for abortion-related charges—the first person to receive such protection in history.
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