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Teodora del Carmen Vásquez was convicted of the aggravated murder of a newborn baby in 2008, but she says it was a stillbirth 
  
 An El Salvador court has rejected the appeal of a woman sentenced to 30 years in prison over what she says was a stillbirth. 
  
 Teodora del Carmen Vásquez, 37, said she was working in 2007 when she began to experience intense pain, then bleeding. She called for help before fainting. As she came round, police officers surrounded her and accused her of murdering her baby by inducing an abortion of her nearly full-term baby. 
  
 El Salvador's anti-abortion law makes criminals of mothers who miscarry Read more 
  
 Authorities charged Vásquez with aggravated murder and she was convicted in 2008. Her attorneys appealed her sentence, presenting testimony that the baby was born dead. 
  
 The court said it relied on the government autopsy’s conclusion that the girl was born alive and asphyxiated. 
  
 The non-profit Center for Reproductive Rights, which has been campaigning for the release of dozens of other women convicted of murder in El Salvador for obstetric emergencies, said the decision was “another slap in the face for Teodora, who never committed any crime”. 
  
 “The Salvadoran court is perpetuating the criminal prosecution of women who suffer pregnancy complications, denying women their dignity, freedom and rights,” said Nancy Northup, the centre’s president and CEO. 
  
 “El Salvador’s abortion law criminalises and wrongfully imprisons women. Today the Salvadoran court chose to deny Teodora her due process.” 
  
 Human rights group Amnesty International called the decision a step back for justice. 
  
 “Teodora’s tragic story is a sad illustration of everything that is wrong with the justice system in El Salvador, where human rights seem to be a foreign concept,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty’s Americas director. 
  
 “Instead of punishing Teodora for being a woman, authorities in El Salvador must urgently take a hard look at their outrageous anti-abortion law and take immediate steps to repeal it.” 
  
 El Salvador is one of a handful of Latin American countries with total bans on abortion. 
  
 In 2014, a coalition of NGOs, led by Agrupación Ciudadana and the Center for Reproductive Rights, launched the “Las 17” online campaign to call for the release of women who had experienced obstetric emergencies and who were charged with having an illegal abortion and then convicted of murder. Three women have been released. But in July 19-year old Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, who had been raped, was sentenced to 30 years for murder after she had a stillbirth. 
  
 The two organisations have filed two cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of some of the “Las17” women. 
  
 “The center, Agrupación Ciudadana, and global partners will continue to challenge El Salvador in the courts and international human rights bodies until Teodora and the remaining women are freed,” said Catalina Martinez Coral, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights. “This court decision will not stop us from fighting for Teodora’s freedom, Las 17 and all women who have been wrongfully imprisoned under the country’s draconian abortion law.” 
  
 A glimmer of hope that El Salvador could overturn its abortion ban emerged earlier this year with the introduction of a parliamentary bill that proposed allowing abortion in cases of rape or human trafficking, when the foetus in unviable or to protect the pregnant woman’s health or life. Recently, activists took to the streets to protest the absolute ban. 
  
 In August, Chile voted to overturn its complete ban to allow abortion in certain circumstances. 
  
  
  
 Last week Bolivia loosened its laws to allow girls and young women to access abortion services up to eight weeks into pregnancy. Prior to the change in new legislation, abortion was only available to women if their lives were in danger. ||||| BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The fate of a young Salvadoran woman who was jailed for allegedly attempting to murder her child under the country’s strict abortion law will be decided by judges next week, her lawyer said. 
  
 Imelda Cortez, who became pregnant aged 18 after being raped by her stepfather, is expected to appear in court on Monday faced with charges of attempted aggravated murder. 
  
 Cortez denies trying to abort her baby, which is a crime under any circumstances in the Central American nation. Her daughter is now nearly two-years-old. 
  
 If convicted, 20-year-old Cortez could face up to 20 years in jail, her lawyer Alejandra Romero said. 
  
 Judges will consider medical evidence presented by doctors to determine if Cortez intentionally tried to induce an abortion and convict her on attempted murder charges, or decide to set her free. 
  
 “Imelda is despondent. Her case could go either way,” Romero told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. 
  
 “But if the judge is objective and looks at the evidence, which doesn’t show she harmed her child and committed a crime, Imelda should be set free,” she said. 
  
 Regardless of Cortez’s guilt or innocence, the harsh penalty she faces has revived debate about El Salvador’s total ban on abortion under any circumstances, even for rape victims. 
  
 “Imelda was repeatedly raped by her stepfather from the age of eleven. DNA tests prove her child is the daughter of her stepfather,” said Romero, adding the stepfather has since been imprisoned on charges of raping a minor. 
  
 “Yet Imelda is being treated as a criminal, not a victim of sexual violence,” said Romero, who works for the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion (CDFA) in El Salvador. 
  
 Cortez is one of about 25 women in jail accused of inducing abortions, who say they were wrongfully jailed for murder, when instead they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications, according to the CDFA. 
  
 Lawyers at CDFA say convictions for such crimes are often based on flimsy medical evidence as it is difficult for doctors to prove if someone has had an abortion, let alone attempts to do so. 
  
 Earlier this year, the United Nations called on El Salvador to revise its abortion law and review all such cases in which women have been jailed. 
  
 In Cortez’s case, she was taken to a hospital after giving birth where doctors said she intentionally tried to induce an abortion, despite the fact the child was born healthy, according to Romero. 
  
 Mariana Ardila, a lawyer at rights group Women’s Link Worldwide, said judges have a duty to consider the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy, even if they find Cortez guilty. 
  
 “It is crucial that the judiciary, while dispensing justice in crimes related to pregnancy, take into account the individual circumstances and background of women and girls,” said Ardila. 
  
 “In this case, the circumstances related to the sexual violence Imelda faced and the afterward consequences on her life.” 
  
 An online petition has so far collected nearly 45,000 signatures calling on authorities to release Cortez from prison. 
  
 “While the law remains so restrictive, such cases will only continue,” Romero said. ||||| Imelda Cortez, 20, faces trial in country where abortion is illegal under all circumstances 
  
 A rape victim is facing 20 years in jail charged with attempted murder, after she gave birth to her abuser’s baby in a latrine in El Salvador. 
  
 In a case that highlights the rigidity of the country’s abortion laws, Imelda Cortez, 20, from an impoverished rural family in San Miguel, has been in custody since April 2017 after giving birth to a baby girl fathered by her abusive elderly stepfather. 
  
 Cortez was rushed to hospital after her mother discovered her in severe pain and bleeding heavily. The emergency room doctor suspected an abortion and called the police. Officers found the baby healthy and alive. 
  
 Cortez had been abused by her 70-year-old stepfather since she was 12 years old and said she had no idea she was pregnant. The baby survived, but Cortez was charged with attempted murder, denied bail and sent to jail after a week in hospital. 
  
 “This is the most extreme, scandalous injustice against a woman I’ve ever seen,�? said Bertha María Deleón, one of Cortez’s defence lawyers. “The state has repeatedly violated Imelda’s rights as a victim; she’s deeply affected but denied psychological attention.�? 
  
 Abortion is illegal in all circumstances in El Salvador and the total ban has led to aggressive persecution of women. 
  
 Like Cortez, most are poor, single rural-dwellers convicted on tenuous evidence after having a gynaecological complication such as a miscarriage or stillbirth. In many cases, the women did not realise they were pregnant. 
  
 This pattern of prosecutions targeting a particular demographic suggests a discriminatory state policy which violates multiple human rights, according to Paula Avila-Guillen, director of Latin America Initiatives at the New York based Women’s Equality Centre. 
  
  
  
 Cortez’s case is a stark illustration of how the law criminalises victims. 
  
 While Cortez was in hospital, her stepfather visited her, threatening to kill her, her siblings and her mother if she reported the abuse. Another patient overheard and told a nurse, who called the police. 
  
 At first, prosecutors accused Cortez of inventing the abuse to justify her crime, until a DNA test confirmed the baby’s paternity. Her stepfather is yet to be charged. 
  
 The criminal trial against Cortez opens today, with a ruling by the three judges expected within a week. 
  
 A psychological evaluation detected cognitive and emotional deficits consistent with abuse and trauma, yet Cortez has received no psychological support since being detained 18 months ago. She has never been allowed to hold her baby daughter. 
  
  
  
 “When you thought nothing could be crueller in El Salvador, you get Imelda’s case, which shows the fierce determination of prosecutors to go after poor women regardless of the circumstances and evidence. By shackling these women to hospital beds and sending them to prison, it sends a strong message: if you’re poor, it’s not safe to seek healthcare,�? said Paula Avila-Guillen. 
  
 Abortion was criminalised in El Salvador 21 years ago, by legislators from across the political spectrum. Hopes have plummeted of the ban being relaxed to allow abortion in cases of rape or human trafficking, when the foetus is unviable, or to protect the pregnant woman’s life. 
  
 A parliamentary bill, drawn up almost two years ago amid a groundswell of public and medical support for reform, remains stuck at the committee stage, with no hope of a vote as political parties gear up for next year’s general election. 
  
 Yet campaigners refuse to give up. Five women wrongly imprisoned for murder – Teodora del Carmen Vásquez, Mayra Figueroa, Elsy Rivera, Katherine Mazariego and Maria Lopez – have been freed so far this year after dogged campaigning by domestic and international human rights groups. 
  
 A further 24 women known to activists are still serving 15 to 30 years in jail. Cortez is one of four awaiting trial or, in the case of Evelyn Hernández, a new ruling after her 2017 guilty verdict was recently overturned. |||||
Output:
A young woman in El Salvador was sexually abused by her stepfather since the age of 12, impregnated by him at age 18, and now has a 2-year-old daughter by him. But adding to the horror of her experience, Imelda Cortez, now 20, is the one facing up to 20 years in prison after being accused of attempted murder due to her country's strict abortion laws, even though she says she didn't try to have an abortion, the Guardian and Reuters report. Cortez has been in custody since April of last year after she'd been rushed to the ER bleeding profusely and in pain; a doctor at the hospital suspected she'd tried to induce an abortion, which is banned in all circumstances in El Salvador. It turns out Cortez, who said she didn't even know she was pregnant, had given birth to a baby girl, who was found safe and healthy by cops. The Guardian notes Cortez's case underscores the plight that young, poor women in El Salvador face, with an abortion law that doesn't allow for one even in cases of rape, when the mother's life is in danger, or when the fetus isn't viable. Some women have been convicted even when they've had a miscarriage or stillbirth. "By shackling these women to hospital beds and sending them to prison, it sends a strong message: If you're poor, it's not safe to seek health care," a human rights lawyer says. As for Cortez, she's "despondent," her lawyer tells Reuters: "Her case could go either way. But if the judge is objective and looks at the evidence, Imelda should be set free." Her criminal trial starts Monday. The Guardian says her stepfather hasn't yet been charged, but her lawyer tells Reuters he's now in jail for raping a minor. (This rape victim got 30 years in prison.)