A 29-year-old woman who suffered an apparent miscarriage but was convicted of aggravated homicide under El Salvador’s strict anti-abortion laws was released from prison Wednesday. Cindy Erazo ...

Every woman at Izalco says they never had an abortion, but instead lost their child to a miscarriage. Kenia was sentenced to 30 years in prison in El Salvador for abortion after she said she ...

After seeking emergency medical attention for the sudden onset of abdominal cramps and heavy bleeding, a 19-year-old woman in Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador, learned she had miscarried before she ...

El Salvador woman accused of abortion sentenced to 30 years in prison Under the nation’s total ban on abortion, women have been sentenced to prison even after suffering apparent miscarriages ...

CBS News documentary explores the impact of El Salvador's abortion ban 08:40. A court in El Salvador has sentenced a woman who suffered an obstetric emergency that ended her pregnancy to 30 years ...

Vasquez is only one of many women in El Salvador who are sentenced to up to 50 years in jail, not for having an abortion – which is illegal – but for miscarriages or stillbirths.

Authorities in El Salvador have freed three women who spent between six and 13 years in jail under the country’s harsh anti-abortion laws after suffering miscarriages, a rights group has ...

In 2011, Elsy suffered a miscarriage only to be arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges of aggravated homicide because the authorities concluded she had had an illegal abortion.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A 29-year-old woman who suffered an apparent miscarriage but was convicted of aggravated homicide under El Salvador’s strict anti-abortion laws was released from ...

El Salvador has released another woman imprisoned for ... had served more than a decade of a 30-year sentence. “We celebrate that Elsy has been freed after being unjustly in prison a ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador has released another woman imprisoned for aggravated homicide who after suffering an obstetric emergency was accused of aborting her pregnancy in a ...

A 29-year-old woman in El Salvador who suffered an apparent miscarriage but was convicted of aggravated homicide under the country’s harsh anti-abortion laws has been released from prison ...