
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A court in El Salvador has sentenced a woman who suffered an obstetric emergency that ended her pregnancy to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide, according to a nongovernmental organization assisting in her legal defense.
The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion said a woman it identified only as “Esme” was sentenced Monday and that she already had been in pretrial detention for two years following her arrest when she sought medical care in a public hospital.