El Salvador is committing "gender violence" by criminalizing women with obstetric emergencies, human rights groups argued before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
March 17, 2021 – NBC News
By Albinson Linares, Noticias Telemundo and
Eulimar Núñez
Manuela, a mother of two in rural El Salvador, couldn't even walk to the
hospital.
In February 2008, her relatives had to wrap her in a hammock and transport her
as best they could to the health center two hours away, after a pregnant
Manuela suffered severe pelvic pain, started hemorrhaging, expelled her fetus
and passed out.
Continued: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/woman-lost-pregnancy-was-jailed-abortion-later-died-rcna440