<p>Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of criminalisation</p><p>Her ordeal began with stomach cramps; 19 years old and training to be a nurse, she knew something was wrong. At the hospital she waited for hours in the emergency department. She had suffered an obstetric emergency.</p><p>Under El Salvador’s legal framework, emergencies including miscarriages and stillbirths place women under criminal suspicion. She lost the baby and doctors alerted the police. She was arrested and handcuffed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/02/el-salvador-bukele-anti-abortion-laws-women-criminalised-obstetric-crisis-miscarriage-rights">Continue reading...</a>
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Jailed for losing a pregnancy: how progress on El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law is unravelling
<p>Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of criminalisation</p><p>Her ordeal began with stomach cramps; 19 years old and training to be a nurse, ...
