El Salvador is considered to have the most extreme abortion ban in the world and is one of the only countries known to prosecute and imprison women in cases of obstetric emergencies.

Evelyn Hernández was falsely accused of aggravated homicide after surviving stillbirth.

Beatriz, a woman diagnosed with lupus, was denied an abortion of an anencephalic fetus in 2013 in El Salvador despite 15 doctors’ recommendations that she do so to protect her health. Attorneys for Beatriz’s family —she died in 2017— are challenging El Salvador’s total ban.

Central America, in Brief: Presidents and lawmakers in Guatemala and El Salvador have pivoted toward religious rhetoric and policymaking in response to increased public scrutiny. The Salvadoran legislature cited the Bible while striking down a partial decriminalization of abortion this week, following the footsteps of Ortega’s alliance with conservative Nicaraguan churches since returning to power in 2007. The phenomenon may also spread to Costa Rica, set to hold presidential elections in February.

“My characters will humanize my Trans brothers and sisters and normalize our existence,” filmmaker Kase Peña said.

Police in Colombia arrested two people yesterday in connection with the killing of mayoral candidate Orley García.

In her first trial in July 2017, a Salvadoran judge said that failing to seek antenatal care and inducing an abortion amounted to murder.

CIUDAD DELGADO, El Salvador (AP) — A young woman charged with homicide in El Salvador after delivering a baby into a toilet faced trial a second time Thursday.

Likely to be challenged in court, the new policy is set to go into effect today.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A young woman who birthed a baby into a toilet in El Salvador faces a second trial for murder Monday in a case that has drawn international attention because of the country’s highly restrictive abortion laws.

Prosecutors say that former Education Secretary (DE) Julia Keleher spent $13 million in securing illicit contracts.

Rallies come one day after the release of three women imprisoned under El Salvador’s abortion ban.

The shelter, located across from Eagle Pass, Texas, in the Mexican town of Piedras Negras, will likely close Wednesday because it has “served its purpose,” according to Coahuila State Public Safety Secretary José Luis Pliego.