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Input: Ms. Vásquez told reporters that she was eager to see her family, including her 13-year-old son. 
  
 El Salvador is one of six countries in the Americas that ban abortion, and its courts enforce it with severe penalties on women and doctors. In 2013, the Supreme Court rejected a plea to terminate the high-risk pregnancy of a woman whose fetus suffered an abnormality that would not have allowed it to survive. Doctors delivered the baby early, and it died. 
  
 The other countries that ban abortions are Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Suriname. 
  
 Two bills have been introduced in El Salvador’s Congress to permit abortion in specific cases, including to save the life of the mother, but they have yet to be considered by a congressional committee. 
  
 Women’s groups have identified at least 28 women who have been imprisoned after experiencing complications in pregnancies. A coalition of women’s groups has been working for the release of 17 women convicted of homicide after obstetric emergencies. Since 2014, four women, including Ms. Vásquez, have been released; a fifth completed her sentence. 
  
 “For me this is a sign of hope, that Teodora’s life may improve,” said Morena Herrera, the president of one of the groups in the coalition. “She spent 10 years and seven months in prison. That is a lot of time for a crime she did not commit. But above all, it is a sign of hope for the other women who are imprisoned.” ||||| "I'm going to start again and get back the time lost" 
  
 By Anastasia Moloney 
  
 BOGOTA, March 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Salvadoran woman who said she suffered a stillbirth - but was jailed for nearly 15 years for murdering her child - was freed on Tuesday after authorities reduced her sentence. 
  
 Maira Veronica Figueroa's release puts the spotlight on El Salvador's total ban on abortion as the Central American nation faces mounting international pressure to overturn its strict law and release other women jailed for abortion-related crimes. 
  
 Figueroa, 34, was handed a 30-year prison sentence in 2003 for aggravated murder after she was convicted of intentionally inducing an abortion, which is a crime under any circumstances in El Salvador. 
  
 On Tuesday morning, Figueroa was greeted by cheering crowds when she walked out of the overcrowded Ilopango women's prison in the capital San Salvador, with a plastic bag of belongings. 
  
 "I'm going to start again and get back the time lost," the government prison quoted her as saying on Twitter. 
  
 Figueroa, a domestic worker, says she experienced pregnancy complications and had a late-term miscarriage. 
  
 "It is inconceivable that Maira spent almost 15 years in prison for experiencing a pregnancy complication," said Nancy Northup, head of the U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which campaigned for Figueroa to be freed. 
  
 "While we celebrate Maira's release today, we condemn the government of El Salvador for not acknowledging the lack of due process and failing to recognize her innocence," she said in a statement. 
  
 "Her conviction has not been overturned and she continues to be guilty in the eyes of the law." 
  
 According to the rights group and the local Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion (CFDA), which also helped campaign for Figueroa's release, at least another 27 women are in prison under the country's abortion law. 
  
 Rights groups say they were accused of inducing abortions, and wrongfully jailed for murder, when instead they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications. 
  
 Abortion has been outlawed in the Catholic-majority nation since 1997 even in cases of rape, incest, when the woman's life is in danger or the foetus is deformed. Five other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean also have an outright ban. 
  
 Figueroa's release follows that of Teodora Vasquez, who was freed in February after spending more than a decade behind bars for an abortion-related crime. 
  
 In 2016, the country's ruling party introduced a bill to allow abortion in cases of rape or a risky pregnancy, but no date has been set for a vote, and it will likely face tough opposition from the Catholic Church and evangelical groups. 
  
 In November, the United Nations urged El Salvador to issue a moratorium on applying its abortion law, and asked authorities to review all such cases in which women had been jailed. 
  
 "El Salvador must prioritise abortion law reform and release the remaining women wrongfully behind bars," Northup said. 
  
 (Reporting by Anastasia Moloney @anastasiabogota, Editing by Katy Migiro. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit http://news.trust.org) 
  
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 International Women’s Day saw over 3,000 women take to the streets of San Salvador to march in defense of their human rights 
  
 Maira Veronica Figueroa has something to celebrate for the first time in 15 years. This week, she was released from prison in her native El Salvador after serving half of her 30-year sentence of aggravated murder. Her crime? Losing her baby near full-term after being impregnated by rape. 
  
 In a case that was covered widely in international media, on Feb. 15 this year, fellow El Salvadoran Teodora Vásquez was released from Llopango prison after she had served 10 years of a 30-year sentence also for aggravated murder of a newborn baby. Her crime? A stillbirth in 2007. 
  
 Teodora and Maira are now free, but their sentences have not been overturned. In December, Teodora lost her appeal against it despite efforts by forensic experts to show that the autopsy report on the stillbirth had been inconclusive. They were both released because the Supreme Court saw “powerful reasons of justice and fairness” which warranted granting the grace of commuting their sentences. But their innocence hasn’t been recognized. 
  
 The law is still in force. 
  
 Passed in 1998, the law bans abortion in all circumstances, even when the pregnancy poses a risk to a woman’s life or is the result of rape. On top of this, in 1999 the Constitution was amended to recognize the right to life from the moment of conception. 
  
 In the 20 years since the passing of this legislation many women have been punished. Between 2000 and 2011, El Salvador courts prosecuted 129 women for abortion-related crimes, and more than a third were convicted. Most of the women’s pregnancies had ended because of complications beyond their control, such as miscarriages, stillbirths or accidents. 
  
 Today, there are more than 25 women in prison serving sentences for homicide, after having been accused of procuring an abortion. In almost half of these cases, the crime was first identified as abortion related, but later changed to homicide. This has serious repercussions for women, as a homicide charge may carry a prison sentence of up to 40 years. 
  
 Maira is the longest-serving. Three women have been released. But as recently as July 2017, 19-year-old Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz was sentenced to 30 years for murder after she had a stillbirth. She had been raped. 
  
 As dire as the situation is, we believe there is hope. 
  
 El Salvador is currently at a pivot point. El Salvador could soon vote to reform its abortion law. Two bills have been introduced to the Congress. If enacted, women would be allowed to access safe and legal abortion services when pregnancy poses a risk to their health or life and in cases of rape and fatal fetal impairments. And, last week, on International Women’s Day, we saw over 3,000 women take to the streets of San Salvador to march in defense of their human rights. For a country with a total ban on abortion, this would mean huge progress. 
  
 Advocacy and legal activists have been pushing for change. In 2014, a coalition of civil society organizations, led by the El Salvadoran civil rights group Agrupación Ciudadana and the Center for Reproductive Rights – launched the online campaign, “Las 17”, to call for the release of women like Teodora and Maira. Las17 has brought worldwide attention to the dire situation that is inflicted on many Salvadoran women. 
  
 The Center for Reproductive Rights has also worked to expose the consequences that El Salvador’s blanket abortion ban has on the lives of women. The Center, together with Agrupación Ciudadana, filed two cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Teodora, Maira, and Maria Teresa who are now free, and six other women who also had serious pregnancy complications and are still in prison due to the severe enforcement of El Salvador’s absolute abortion ban. And, on behalf of Manuela, a Salvadoran woman wrongfully imprisoned after having an obstetric emergency and who later died from untreated Hodgkins lymphoma in prison. 
  
 There is still work to do to ensure abortion law reform is a reality in El Salvador and women’s reproductive rights are protected and respected, but this week, we celebrate Maira Figueroa’s life outside prison and are hopeful others like her will soon follow. 
  
 Catalina Martínez Coral is regional director for Latin America & the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights 
  
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Output:
El Salvador is one of a few countries where abortion is banned outright, with no exceptions for women raped or at risk of death. Activists, however, are calling attention to a "pivotal moment for El Salvador's abortion law reform" after a welcome move Tuesday. After serving 15 years of a 30-year sentence for the aggravated murder of her child, who she says was stillborn, Maira Verónica Figueroa Marroquín had her sentence commuted by the Supreme Court and was released from prison, reports Reuters. The 34-year-old maintains she suffered a late-term miscarriage in 2003 while working as a maid, per the BBC. "I'm going to start again and make up for lost time," she's quoted as saying. "I want to study law to understand what happened to me and help other women." And there are many more to be helped. Figueroa's release follows that of 34-year-old Teodora del Carmen Vásquez, whose own 30-year sentence for aggravated murder was commuted a month ago after she served 10 years for what she claimed was a stillbirth experienced while working as a school cafeteria cook in the last month of her pregnancy, reports the New York Times. But at least 27 women remain in prison in El Salvador for violating the abortion ban, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. In an op-ed at Reuters, CRR rep Catalina Martínez Coral notes El Salvador is now "at a pivot point," with Congress entertaining two bills that would allow abortion in limited cases, including where pregnancy poses a risk to a woman's health or results from rape.