SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A court in El Salvador has sentenced a woman who suffered an obstetric emergency that ended her pregnancy to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide, according to a nongovernmental organization assisting in her defense.

The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion said Tuesday in a statement that a woman they identified only as “Esme” was sentenced Monday. The woman had already been in pre-trial detention for two years following her arrest when she sought medical care in a public hospital.

“The judge acted with partiality, giving greater weight to the version offered by the Attorney General’s Office, which was loaded with stigmas and gender stereotypes,” the group said. They said they would appeal.

The sentence could not be immediately confirmed because the courts were closed Tuesday for Mother’s Day.

El Salvador maintains a total ban on abortion and a number of women have been arrested and sentenced to prison after suffering apparent miscarriages that were reported to authorities.

In the past two decade, nearly 180 women have been prosecuted. Since 2009, the government has released 64 of them. Just since December, eight women serving long prison sentences have had those sentences commuted.

Vl3ly:
That is a good penalty

VictorUSA:
The useless woman just aborted a child that God might have destined to be president.I don't know why women are this worthless, jobless and useless.She might have cheated to conceive the child.Her jail term should be extended by 10yrs.

Seun:

If your daughter was raped and got pregnant after winning a full academic scholarship to an Ivy League university, would you not abort it?


Would you agree that the man who got her pregnant and didn't want to take responsibility for the pregnancy should be in prison too?

Seun:

If your daughter was raped and got pregnant after winning a full academic scholarship to an Ivy League university, would you not abort it?

angelfallz:
What crime did the baby commit?

Seun:

The foetus has no awareness of what is going on, especially in the first trimester, so it doesn't suffer like an actual thinking person. It doesn't know that it is being aborted. It doesn't know anything. Doctors believe a foetus cannot even feel pain until the third trimester of pregnancy. If there is a concern that the foetus can feel pain, it can be anaesthetised by the doctor prior to evacuation so it won't feel any pain at all.

If a woman is 'irresponsible' then why should we force her to keep a baby that she doesn't want? She'll be a terrible parent. So, let her abort it.

VictorUSA:
No, but he should be mandated to take care of the useless woman and his child.

Seun:

The foetus has no awareness of what is going on, especially in the first trimester, so it doesn't suffer like an actual thinking person. It doesn't know that it is being aborted. It doesn't know anything. Doctors believe a foetus cannot even feel pain until the third trimester of pregnancy. If there is a concern that the foetus can feel pain, it can be anaesthetised by the doctor prior to evacuation so it won't feel any pain at all.

If a woman is 'irresponsible' then why should we force her to keep a baby that she doesn't want? She'll be a terrible parent. So, let her abort it.

angelfallz:
In the US(one of the pro abortion countries in the world) it is no longer fashionable to claim that the foetus does not feel pain, in fact murderers(abortionists) don't argue anymore if the foetus is alive because, they lost that argument long ago.

That foetus did not beg to be born, it did not choose the circumstance(rape or incest) of its birth, so why kill it?

You talk about the mother being irresponsible, what happened to orphanages?

Abortion is murder.

Seun:

The foetus has no awareness of what is going on, especially in the first trimester, so it doesn't suffer like an actual thinking person. It doesn't know that it is being aborted. It doesn't know anything. Doctors believe a foetus cannot even feel pain until the third trimester of pregnancy. If there is a concern that the foetus can feel pain, it can be anaesthetised by the doctor prior to evacuation so it won't feel any pain at all.

If a woman is 'irresponsible' then why should we force her to keep a baby that she doesn't want? She'll be a terrible parent. So, let her abort it.

Seun:

The foetus is alive, just like the plants in my garden. But at the early stages of pregnancy it is not a full person like us. It's not a sentient being.

Because the world is not ready for it to be born. Because its parents are not ready to have it. It will not have the quality of life that it deserves.

If all the women that aborted their pregnancies gave birth to them and dumped them in orphanages, will the orphanages be able to cope? We already have too many orphans and street kids with poor parents who cannot take care of them in this country, for example the Almajiris.

The death of a foetus is not the same as the death of a person. If it was, we would conduct funerals every time a woman had a miscarriage.

Seun:

The foetus has no awareness of what is going on, especially in the first trimester, so it doesn't suffer like an actual thinking person. It doesn't know that it is being aborted. It doesn't know anything. Doctors believe a foetus cannot even feel pain until the third trimester of pregnancy. If there is a concern that the foetus can feel pain, it can be anaesthetised by the doctor prior to evacuation so it won't feel any pain at all.

If a woman is 'irresponsible' then why should we force her to keep a baby that she doesn't want? She'll be a terrible parent. So, let her abort it.

VictorUSA:
The useless woman just aborted a child that God might have destined to be president.I don't know why women are this worthless, jobless and useless.She might have cheated to conceive the child.Her jail term should be extended by 10yrs.

Seun:

If your daughter was raped and got pregnant after winning a full academic scholarship to an Ivy League university, would you not abort it?