http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/...iled-30-years-stillbirth-170707062208443.html
Obviously we want to encourage pregnant women to get proper prenatal care, but sex ed is likely a more effective mechanism than criminalization.
Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz was convicted of "aggravated homicide" on Wednesday under what Amnesty International called El Salvador's "retrograde anti-abortion law".
Hospital staff reported her to officials and she was charged after the body of the feotus was found in a toilet.
According to local media, Hernandez Cruz was convicted on grounds that she did not get prenatal care. Prosecutors also argued that the baby may have died after birth.
El Salvador-based Alliance for Women's Health and Life documented at least 147 cases where women were charged with crimes under the abortion law between 2000 and 2014.
Among them was Maria Teresa Rivera, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison for "aggravated homicide" in 2011 after having a stillbirth in her bathroom. She did not know she was pregnant at the time.
Obviously we want to encourage pregnant women to get proper prenatal care, but sex ed is likely a more effective mechanism than criminalization.