This dystopian trial in El Salvador is what a total ban on abortion looks like

This dystopian trial in El Salvador is what a total ban on abortion looks like

By Annalisa Merelli
August 20, 2019

When she was 18, Evelyn Beatríz Hernández Cruz, a high-school student from a poor family in Cojutepeque, El Salvador, was raped repeatedly, over the span of few months, by the member of a local gang. She unknowingly became pregnant and, in 2016, suffered a stillbirth during her third trimester.

She then spent nearly three years in prison, battling the country’s strict abortion laws.

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