TY - JOUR PY - 2017// TI - Rape survivor is sentenced to 30 years in jail under El Salvador's extreme anti-abortion law JO - BMJ A1 - Torjesen, Ingrid SP - j3327 EP - j3327 VL - 358 IS - N2 -

A 19 year old who became pregnant after being raped has been sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges of “aggravated homicide” after experiencing obstetric complications delivering the baby. A court in El Salvador, which has some of the world’s strictest abortion laws, sentenced Evelyn Beatriz Hernández Cruz on 5 July after prosecutors argued that in April the teenager had aborted the fetus and …

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LA - en SN - 0959-535X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3327 ID - ref1 ER -