Evelyn Hernández, the Salvadoran rape victim sentenced to 30 years in prison for a stillbirth, is finally free
In 2016, after police found fetal remains outside an outhouse near her home in El Salvador, where abortion is illegal in all situations, Hernandez was arrested. Hernández, at the time an 18-year-old rape survivor, was in high school. She claims she never knew she was pregnant until she went into labor and delivered a stillborn baby in the toilet.
Groups hoping to free more women in the country say there are at least 17 others currently in prison under the abortion laws, though over the last ten years, 30 have been freed upon review of forensic evidence.
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