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European and US Right groups backed El Salvador criminalising abortion – and lost

In a case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, European groups supported criminalising women who had obstetric emergencies

European and US Right groups backed El Salvador criminalising abortion – and lost
Salvadoran women on the Global Day of Action for Abortion, 28 September. Photo: Camilo Freedman/Zuma Press Inc/Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved | Photo: Camilo Freedman/Zuma Press Inc/Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved
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European right-wing groups backed the El Salvador government over the imprisonment and death of a woman for having a miscarriage. But they lost.

One of the groups was the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), a branch of the ultra-conservative American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), led by Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow.