Across El Salvador, generations of activists, buoyed by changing societal attitudes towards abortion and women’s rights, are organizing to educate girls and women about their sexual and reproductive rights. MsReads via Narratively
. Rosa Cruz, who was born in San Salvador, is a psychologist with the Feminist Collective for Local Development. For the past five years, she has run a support group for women imprisoned for miscarriage and abortion, helping them adjust to life after prison. “The idea of this work is to give women autonomy over their own bodies and to help them become the voices of their own cause — that they were unjustly incarcerated,” explains Rosa Cruz.
According to Rosa Cruz, rich women in El Salvador who want an abortion simply fly to Miami. “The truth is that, here, poverty, ignorance and youth are criminalized,” she says. “You won’t see rich women in prison.” Most of the women who do end up in prison, Rosa Cruz says, are young, poor, and afraid. They’re often victims of violence and abuse, but fear speaking up.
Herrera’s organization has worked to support women in several high-profile abortion cases. The Citizen’s Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion petitioned pardons for a group of women known aswho were sentenced to up to 40 years in prison for miscarriage between 1999 and 2011. She was also vocal in supporting a 2013 Supreme Court case in which Beatriz, a 22-year-old woman, challenged the abortion ban.
Activists write “#ConEllas” and “#ES” for El Salvador on their bodies as part of a campaign to raise awareness about the 17 women who were imprisoned for aggravated homicide after miscarriages and stillbirths in El Salvador.
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