SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A young woman who birthed a baby into a toilet in El Salvador faces a second trial for murder Monday in a case that has drawn international attention because of the country’s highly restrictive abortion laws. Dozens of women have been jailed in El Salvador with similar convictions. “What Evelyn is living is the nightmare of many women in El Salvador,” said her lawyer, Elizabeth Deras. “If a poor woman has a miscarriage, she’s immediately suspected of having had an abortion,” Bukele said in 2018. The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion in El Salvador has tracked 146 prosecutions against women for abortion since 2014.

Source: thestar July 15, 2019 04:07 UTC