Jailed in Mexico for Having an Abortion

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According to this article at El Diario NTR, 23 women are in jail in Mexico for “aggravated homicide by reason of kinship.”  Their crime?  Having an abortion.  At least one of the jailed women suffered a spontaneous abortion and was sentenced to 23 years in jail.

Read more (in Spanish) here.

H/T @Thessa7.

-Bridget Crawford

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