Salvadoran activists hurl confetti, paint to protest new abortion trial

Salvadoran activists hurl confetti, paint to protest new abortion trial

Reuters
Sept 10, 2019

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Activists in El Salvador threw eggs filled with confetti and sprayed red paint outside the attorney general's office on Monday to a protest a decision to seek a third trial for a woman accused of killing her stillborn son.

Abortion is banned in the socially-conservative Central American country, where women have been prosecuted for stillbirths after home deliveries and abortions induced because of medical emergencies.

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