DA Grimes, J Benson, S Singh, M Romero

Illegal abortion laws: prosecution in El Salvador
• “After I came out of the coma, they moved me to the maternity hospital. My brother
visited and asked me if the police had come to ask me questions. He said the police
had come to our house and they had interrogated our relatives and neighbours. They
had gone to where I worked. They asked everyone a lot of questions about me and who
I was and if they knew whether I was pregnant and whether I’d had an abortion.
• When I got home, the prosecutor came to see me, and he asked lots of aggressive
questions. He talked to me like I was a criminal. I didn’t want to answer because I was
scared. He said if I didn’t answer, even though I was in bad physical shape, he would
put me in jail.
• He wanted me to tell him who the father of the child was and the name of the person
who had done this to me.
• I didn’t know her name. Then he made a date for me to come to the prosecutor’s office.”
Anonymous woman in El Salvador
IFMT-MS.Sémin.Mère-
Enft.déc.2006
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