An El Salvador woman has been cleared of murder after giving birth to a stillborn boy in a toilet. She claims the pregnancy was the result of rape. Read more here:
Prosecutors argued during the retrial in Ciudad Delgado that Ms Hernandez had failed to protect her fetus and asked for a 40-year sentence.But she was acquitted by a judge on Monday, with her lawyer Bertha Maria Deleon saying:"He has said that there was no way to prove a crime and for that reason he absolved her.""Thank God, justice was done," Ms Hernandez said afterwards."There are many women who are still locked up and I call for them to be freed soon too.
Recent polls have shown support for more lenient abortion laws, though many in the country believe rape victims should be made to carry pregnancies to term.
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