From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
She was in labor, fainted, and woke up in handcuffs.
In El Salvador, nearly 200 women have been incarcerated in the last 26 years after having obstetric emergencies, like miscarriages and stillbirths. Maria Hinojosa and producer Monica Morales-Garcia travel to the country to speak with women who have been incarcerated under El Salvador's anti-abortion laws, some of the strictest in the world.
Through interviews, documents, and archival materials, this investigation paints a clear and disturbing picture of the women who suffer most when a country stretches the definition of abortion beyond its meaning and then bans them all without exception.
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| 1:16.8 | It is July of 2007 in the capital of El Salvador. |
| 1:23.4 | A 24-year-old woman named Teodora Vasquez is at work alone at the end of the day. |
| 1:27.2 | She's nine months pregnant, and she's in active labor. |
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