The changing religious landscape in this historically Catholic country has not been good news for women, who live under one of the world’s harshest anti-abortion laws Español
A Protestant megachurch in El Salvador, 2018 | Flickr/BBC World Service. CC-BY-2.0. Some rights reserved
In El Salvador, just being suspected of having had an abortion can put a woman behind bars. In February 2008, Teodora del Carmen Vásquez was sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide after she had a stillbirth.
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