Authorities are silent on concerns that Zika may raise the risk of miscarriage or still birth which can lead to murder charges under the draconian abortion lawWomen’s rights activists fear that a suspected rise in miscarriages linked to the Zika epidemic could lead to a surge in criminal prosecutions of women for planned abortion or murder under El Salvador’s draconian abortion law.
El Salvador is one of six countries with a total ban on abortion, and the aggressive persecution of women suspected of terminating a pregnancy has led to serious miscarriages of justice.
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Source: theguardian.com