We may "SMH" and laugh in disbelief over the Walsh remark, but women in El Salvador aren't laughing

[Iris]

From the moment Manuela arrived at the hospital seeking emergency health care, slipping in and out of consciousness and hemorrhaging, doctors treated her as if she had attempted an abortion and immediately called the police. She was shackled to her hospital bed and accused of murder.

Manuela was sentenced to 30 years in prison without ever having a chance to meet with her lawyer, without an opportunity to speak in her own defense, and without the right to appeal the decision. Shockingly, the judge overseeing her case said that “her maternal instinct should have prevailed” and “she should have protected her child.”

Abortion was once legal in El Salvador under a narrow set of circumstances, but even these limited exceptions were removed in 1998, as documented by CRR in a report released in 2000. Now El Salvador is among five countries in Latin America and the Caribbean — including Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Chile — where abortion is absolutely prohibited even when the woman’s health or life is at risk.


http://reproductiverights.org/en/press-room/center-for-reproductive-rights-files-case-revealing-the-horrifying-reality-of-el-salvador


I know people say the right uses abortion as a tool to appeal to their base but how far can this go?

[aquart]

1. At least that far.

[mercuryblues]

2. if they can get this far

It will leave all those anti-choice zealots without a cause. I believe their next step will be to take a woman's right to vote away next. When you take away a woman's right to control her own body, taking away her right to vote will be easy.