Everything about Abortion In El Salvador totally explained
Abortion in El Salvador is completely
illegal. The law formerly permitted an
abortion to be performed under limited circumstances, but, in 1998, all exceptions were removed when a new
abortion law went into effect.
History of Salvadoran abortion law
El Salvador's 1956
Penal Code contained no explicit exception to its prohibition of abortion, although, under accepted principles of
criminal law, one could be justified if necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant woman. In response to the fact that the practice of illegal abortion was common, and was a major contributor to the rate of
maternal mortality, the Salvadoran government chose to expand the cases in which abortion was permitted.
In 1997, the
Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) submitted a draft bill, designed to amend the Penal Code to withdraw all grounds under which abortion was then permitted. On
April 25,
1997, the Legislative Assembly voted 61 out of 84 to approve this modification to the Code.
In an article published in the
April 9,
2006 edition of the
New York Times Magazine, writer
Jack Hitt explored the effect of 1998 Penal Code. The article later came under criticism when it was revealed that a woman mentioned as having been sentenced to 30 years in prison for an abortion, Carmen Climaco, had in fact been jailed for homicide after killing a full-term infant.
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