Citation

Torjesen I. BMJ 2017; 358: j3327.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.j3327

PMID

28687537

Abstract

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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