Mon Jan 3, 2022 – 4:58 pm EST
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (LifeSiteNews) — Abortion rights advocates praised the release last month of women who were convicted of infanticide in El Salvador and had been “serving long prison sentences,” The New York Times reported on Christmas Day.
“Karen, Kathy, and Evelyn” were identified by Morena Herrera, an El Salvadoran abortion activist, as three of the women who were released. Their family names were not given.
Abortion activists refer to a group of 17 women imprisoned for murdering their children after they were born alive as “Las 17+,” and abortion advocates in El Salvador and Latin America use their cases to suggest that women are victims of no access to abortion.
The newspaper called one of the women Manuela, who was criminally charged in 2008 after it was discovered she had violently pulled out the umbilical cord of her child and threw the baby into a latrine, where the child died of suffocation in feces.
Although only the first names are given of the other three women, the names correspond to a list provided by Fundacion Vida SV, an El Salvadoran pro-life organization, that gives detailed documentation of the criminal proceedings of all the women included in Las 17+.
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