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Kenia was 17 when, she says, she had a miscarriage after a fall and was sent to jail on suspicion of having had an abortion in El Salvador.

Kenia said she was 17 when she had a miscarriage after a fall and was sent to a Salvadoran jail on suspicion of having had an abortion. Nine years later, she is out after receiving a reprieve, but feels like she was robbed of her youth in a country with among the world’s strictest abortion laws. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison. “I was deprived of my freedom for such an unjust reason,” Kenia earlier this week told a news conference with three other women who were similarly punished. “I lost my youth, I lost my family, all my aspirations were taken

SAN SALVADOR--Four Salvadoran women recently freed from prison after a judicial review of their convictions for aggravated homicide following...

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Salvadoran women tell of unjust treatment under abortion law

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The four women all had sought medical help for...