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SAN JOSE/SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador violated a woman's rights after denying her an abortion in 2013 despite doctors' calls to terminate her high-risk pregnancy, the Inter-American Court of ...

"Babies aren't to blame for Zika and the mistakes people make. Babies are a blessing from God." Zika looms but El Salvador stands firm on abortion ban Six months pregnant with her first child, ...

BOGOTA, Nov 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When convicted murderer Teodora Vasquez was freed after more than a decade in prison, the Salvadoran single mother faced a whole new challenge - a teenage ...

A 37-year-old woman in El Salvador has spent the last decade in prison on an aggravated homicide charge after suffering what she said was a stillbirth. Though Amnesty International was in court this ...

In Zika-prone countries, women are told to stop getting pregnant but don't have access to contraceptives and face prison time for abortion. Violence has risen steadily in El Salvador since a 2012 ...

(Updated Jan. 21, 9:10 PM). Guadalupe pardoned by El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly. (Updated Jan. 20, 5 PM) — El Salvador’s legislative assembly is scheduled to vote for a second time tomorrow, Jan.

Human rights organizations are calling for an end to El Salvador's total ban on abortion, under which women and girls are routinely imprisoned, even after enduring stillbirths and miscarriages. The ...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Church leaders in El Salvador on Tuesday said they want to revive a fragile truce between the country's powerful street gangs in order to curb a... August 25, 2021 at 1:07 a.m ...

Women suspected of abortion in El Salvador face criminal charges, jail time Women suspected of abortion in El Salvador face criminal charges, jail time… Thousands of children were kidnapped during a ...