In El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, many women die from lack of access to safe and legal to terminate their pregnancies, even in cases where the product is not viable or life threatening, while others have been sentenced up to 30 years in jail, accused of having undergone the practice.
In El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, many women die from lack of access to safe and legal to terminate their pregnancies.
Therapeutic abortion performed for medical reasons or is the result of rape existed in these countries from the nineteenth century liberal constitutions. To remove this centenary right in the middle of electoral contexts joined lawmakers from right and left in El Salvador and Nicaragua. In Honduras is credited done right.
However, despite the ban and the official silence, feminist organizations have no respite from their governments in the fight to restore the therapeutic abortion and presented to the public statistics and / or testimony showing the harshness of the ban this practice.
In Nicaragua, according to a report by the NGO, IPAS, from the criminalization of abortion in 2006, killed 31 women. They could have survived had received timely treatment to various types of cancer or entopic pregnancies.
