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Urgent Action: Woman Convicted Under Unfair Anti-Abortion Law (El Salvador: UA 98.17)

July 13, 2017

While Salvadoran legislators have, for months, been postponing the debate on the Criminal Code reform that would decriminalize abortion, another rape survivor has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for having suffered pregnancy-related complications.

While Salvadoran legislators have, for months, been postponing the debate on the Criminal Code reform that would decriminalize abortion, another rape survivor has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for having suffered pregnancy-related complications. 1) TAKE ACTION Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:
  • Urging the legislators to support the proposal that ends the total ban on abortion;
  • Expressing your profound concern that women and girls in El Salvador are at risk of having their rights to life and health, and their right not to be subjected to discrimination, torture or ill-treatment violated if the criminalization of abortion is maintained;
  • Calling for access to abortion to be guaranteed both in law and in practice, at a minimum, in cases where pregnancy poses a risk to the life or the physical or mental health of a pregnant woman or girl, in cases where the foetus will be unable to survive outside the womb, and in cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Contact these two officials by 24 September, 2017:

President of the Commission of the Legislative Assembly Mario Alberto Tenorio Presidente de la Comisión de Legislación y Puntos Constitucionales Email: [email protected] Twitter: @mtenoriosv Salutation: Dear Mr. President/ Estimado Sr. Presidente

Ambassador Claudia Ivette Canjura de Centeno Embassy of El Salvador 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 100, Washington DC 20036 Phone: 202 595 7500  I  Twitter: El_Salvador_EMB Email: [email protected] Salutation: Dear Ambassador/ Estimada Embajadora

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