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for space. starts more jake on d w. ah ma'am, my name is tia dora dot com and vasquez, and 34 years old. i've been in prison for 10 years and 6 months. ah, ah ah ah ah, a abortion is a crime. thanks to our constitution. and salvador is still one of the few countries
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that benz abortions in all cases feel. a human rights organizations take advantage of women's lack of education and through forced propaganda and wise, they make them murderers of their unborn daughters and sons. it's a cruel act. it's a barbaric act. ah.
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as that i said, i mean it was the 13th of july, 2007. carrington? yes ma'am. i was 9 months pregnant as that i was working in central san salvador in la. yeah, the pain was unbearable again, my telephone i started making calls. amy that they are on the saddle. my baby is about to be born. i said at the moment i can stand the pain. come help me. they'll sat for a family of the police said they would come aid, but they never did know you that needed to welcome my baby was born there and then germany, i fainted from e . like in i woke up. i tried to get help
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no matter why did you kill her? a man asked me to come along. i haven't killed any one. i said the app because you said yes, you killed your daughter. now you have to pay them and i kept passing out. am acquainted, okay. i just remember waking up and then fainting again. i would be in my bathroom when i was almost dead it and thought i've been imprisoned of her side of the meadow they hadn't 30, they said it was an abortion. if what didn't they changed? it to aggravated homicide. they sentenced me to 30 years. i went to summer when the door opened. i didn't want to look inside
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to look at any event at an end. not acadia. i didn't want to talk to anyone. okay, i can. i didn't want any one talking to me that he had an enemy really? i wanted my baby, but i'd already bought clothes for her that i was so excited. they're me sitting missing women sleep on the floor at 1st and i wanted and slept on the floor for 7 months. and as i used to lie there crying now and that by staring at the wall, wondering would i be able to leave the plant? and when the truth would come out, you're the head decker, but in again, i was afraid that i would never get out again. i thought i won't survive. i'm going to die here money. here momento,
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the load is your political, the hearing in january, 2008. and i didn't have a lawyer to defend me. my parents had given a lawyer, $700.00 to take my case as le video me. but he demanded that they give him land cattle, a house, and a car by the limit again, or maybe on that army. my parents asked me if they should give him the house, but i couldn't leave them on the street very no body and headline. okay, so i decided not to have a lawyer as itsyana, and i will that i preferred to stay in prison longer. maybe if it meant my parents and my son would still have a place to live. he can be bad. it is a need to be added to the beach. i don't know how the years went by. and my son grew up without me. new york or
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sandra saw me by that is my parents were always worried because they didn't have money to visit me. i was 20 when another was born. when dad, when he was 3 years old, i got pregnant again. what to me in may must when i was very excited because i wanted to have 2 children. and okay, my kiddo. is that what, what i want most is to be with anal gabrielle element, but i missed the best of his childhood. i love him more than ever makin okay. i loved him from the day he was born and will love him until the day i die. i don't get back,
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they disappeared. having an abortion goes against their nature against their maternal instinct against their own interests. after an abortion women suffer clinical depression. but this kind of depression is abhorrent. these women have killed girls and boys who had the right to live on. i mean, i don't want my any more had more than 3000 women live in the prison camp again, they don't even have a bed or a blanket to sleep under now. yeah, there is no running water to the fact that the food is terrible. i mean, there are only 6 toilets for all these women. do they
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am, would you go by? i met many other inmates and never realised they were in prison on similar charges . i thought i was alone, pakistanis one, but i wasn't they don't know it. i think not the mom. we realized there were many women accused of the same crime in 88 and we'll have, we were already friends, but we hadn't talked about our cases demand one for 2 past one. the many had i think that when they said 30 years, my 1st thought was no criminal cup or something. i mean i've lost everything that i've been innocent. i haven't seen my daughter since i've been here. but the thing was that i, i don't know how she's doing. i know nothing doing . i was young. i had a fight with the father of my 1st daughter, and i mean, she was 9 years old man and woman. i was 4 months pregnant with them. and when they hit me and the baby died, i started bleeding
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a lot. my daughter saw me bleed in less than that. i just remember that i was given an injection in the hospital and they put me on a bed that. but that's all that i must when. when i said that i woke up around 7 in the evening, i was handcuffed many and they told me not to ask questions and to stay where i was . i was alone in a room by indiana on the day of my hearing, there was no evidence against me. they only the testimony of one witness and the dna test gave them a lot. what i did and who was the witness? my daughter's father who'd hit you. yes. and you couldn't go know that'll since the prosecutor was on their side, they didn't allow a lawyer to speak. minnie, i don't know. and they didn't allow my father to speak of either man in a i don't. he was my only witness. no man, it's like that on a bladder. mm hm. but i've been here for almost 11 years. they sentenced me to 30. what happened to you?
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mapquest, i was accused of aggravated homicide. yes, dying and i was at the hospital. a felon there. if i all squire was handcuffed travel mosquito, they said i was charged with murder telling me that i had killed my own dorsal mickey. i. i was shortly. no, no, no, no, you want. i fell down. it was an accident. i have been all along, i almost about my daughter, a living me ha, they didn't let me see her. mom and i be sensing and i'm like you said on the day, maybe you don't get they all see why i did it. i didn't understand what was happening in anthony because i hadn't been there being any instead. but who did it? the doctors blame you and doctors called the police the thought anyway,
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but okay. yeah, not on a lab. and if i didn't understand name, they didn't give me an explanation. they took me to the police station. i believe i was there for about 8 days. how much then they brought me here. name if i had them back and then going in and they, i think one of my daughters is 15 years old than the other is 12 20 am. but i got pregnant after being raped by 3 men and one of them was my brother. he went to me, my wife, after my mother died, i lost my baby. 20 days later i was arrested during my baby's funeral. i think i'm in the indiana and whether 14 policemen were standing at the door of the church. i asked them, why are you looking for me? and they said my name am and i said yes, that's me. they said you're under arrest for murder. i asked why
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am i didn't kill anyone? they took my baby's body out of the coffin and threw it in the back of the pickup truck. they took my baby and they took me to now and i know i left my 2 daughters behind my when my parents were no longer there to take care of them. and i didn't want to leave them with my brother, the one who had hurt me. my brother, his friends, have their families while my daughters are suffering from media and sam mann back and they're having a hard time on their own and i'm suffering without them. he also is now life has been really hard on me in that regard to what i mean, like all in this and he has he sort of, i thought, so if i'm the only one, maybe they just got it wrong or it was maybe they just made
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a mistake try to thank god it was to find out yet when i learned that there were more of us, i got very angry, think it would be when and because it means that el salvador sees women as property has been handled. i'm one second. okay, that's the end of the dilemma that is there better than in cities. have these laws allow them to rule over us and the last young get england next sunday, the put out. but we cannot allow women to continue to be imprisoned for pregnancy. emergencies is to help and not do anything about this situation, whereas not every beander has to help with emily, me and her mom has we've heard strong relationships. we've decided to unite and defend ourselves and have a mental. ringback get better, but lawyers with the citizens group for the d. criminalization of abortion came in 2012 and i'm glad they called us because 17 sundays family. the ways that we agreed that they would take on our cases. and that the 1st of us to come out of prison by whatever means it would be the 1st to denounce the conditions inside the prison,
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yet or less the shock of family and the event in a moment. okay, the ambassadors told us they needed a spokes person to represent us when the girls chose me to play william. but that's how it all started. these days are special for each one of us. we know we are in prison, but we had our spiritual freedom. see dear alba, i yelled as he delora and she said about the order said go ahead and as we started with 17 women, now there are more advocacy since 2009. we have identified a 129 cases. gamble hand difficult
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the 3rd a, but then in addition to political, lobbying mobilization and campaigning, know the citizens group has a legal team that follow up on cases tamia dash if the has cases on not just one in the court room, they are one in the streets of the number one guy the gun that the f m l n party presented a penal code reform to decriminalize abortion affordable. they get to save their lives, so they don't dine these conditions on as well. i'm president of the legislative assembly lorena pena presented the bill alongside women's groups to propose that condo, sal palazzo. they will not your last you. when is the result of rape when the mothers labor's at risk, when it's a result of human trafficking, and when the case involves a minor gondo gas, or cetera, that they may not as they are thou up, let us know this seems to contradict the 2nd article of the constitution enshrining
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the right to life of every person, you know, that a joy levee the abilene. but as soon as they faced with pressure from social organizations to decriminalize abortion, the catholic church objected to these measures of the archbishop called on the legislature not to change the penal code while on yes. does. while the, because you in their sal got the got with, if the, some of them will get out the cost. if we are democratic, look at the percentages for them. that the point that the members of the legislator will see that if they vote to legalize abortion, they will be going against the vast majority of the population as young, which christian also on the constitution says that life begins at the moment of conception. so i don't see why abortion should be judged less severely than aggravated homicide alone. i'll come galaxy, did he cut the changing the charges violates due process. they're trying to impose longer sentences. abortion carries a sentence of 2 to 8 years in philadelphia. lasagna. blue headed the glass in the middle, or upper class women who have more money, you have $2.00 options, and in dob, either they go to
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a private clinic and pay over $1000.00 for an abortion, or they go abroad for the procedure, i think by isa don de larry elise hung out of cars will begin with that are murder is now considered a human right and it will not a mother's right that allow that this is an ideological relativism that for me, as a politician, it is an ideological up front to the west america and its citizens, the gold already got on darcy. this is the largest genocide in human history, much greater than the one carried out during the 2nd world war. i went back a little bit to get a few more can already sell and harker states. he has not reviewed cases of miscarriages that have led to women's imprisonment by men and gas. what else i want to say when it comes to miscarriages, no woman is being persecuted for having a miscarriage. hello to platform, daniel known woman should go to jail for having an abortion ah
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for contact out what i understand, unless enough is i was contacted by amnesty international about taking this case will bundle solomon and al, exclusively handle cases like this since i left but i believe it is essential for justice to sierra way on. the charge against a adora was aggravated homicide. yahoo! see major contradictions here selected, fella you that one up a. so another thing of the killing of a new born 30 to 40 weeks gestation shemelle them. and then who was born alive, but died of parent natal asphyxia. they were you though, and i'll fix up. been enough done. is signs of a 6 year by drowning were found. see a lot of it. can you born died of parent a to las fix year that she could not have died by drowning matthews? things are mutually exclusive. so parent aid to las, fix it as a natural cause of death and not what it cannot be one on the other at the same time. cause i mean with the i'm, i don't think the judges even read the autopsy yet. i love dr.
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well, the lee alyssa and things that go when i read tale dora's file, which is very extensive, and i must admit, i thought this woman is guilty by the file intentionally, leads you to believe that she is guilty, black with the effort of one. but when you sit down and read it more carefully, you wonder how is it possible that a woman who wants to have an abortion calls the police 5 times to ask them for help? yeah, i believe is, but that meant that law, he guided the medical evidence as conclusive empathy. she had a pre term birth to placental abrupt sion with heavy bleeding and lost consciousness. the sicily, her medical history is consistent with the information she provided gave them. and if yes, the same, and i thought i was 9 months pregnant and as i was robbed when i was on my way to san salvador, with my sick mother, i am we a family i was robbed on the bus,
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innocent that on. and i think the man tried to steal my phone and jumped towards me, landing right on my belly, play enemy style elizabeth, living alone in a block to the abdomen. and the final trimester can cause placental abrupt sion, which was probably the case with to your dora. because when the baby came, the placenta came with it going on because of the injury to the abdomen. this is the most logical conclusion to her. but to your dora, like many others was stigmatized and convicted without evidence though. okay, if you provoke or instigating abortion, that is if you give the patient the idea or assist her in any way, you also go to prison and then i for 2 to 5 years. and that's why health care workers report everything to the police, if miscarriages, or still birds. they report any kind of termination of pregnancy, inherently, this is massaging, stigmatization, and persecution for being
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a woman. no case that but if a woman has a miscarriage, the 1st thing people think is that it was intentional or fed. when a woman becomes pregnant, she loses all her rights and automatically becomes an incubator. think on all the rights are violated, starting with the right to life. then the little, i mean, ah, some of which on the prism and we are fighting for this error to be corrected, but judges go after 6 months of fighting with court of appeals agreed to review the case. so say one does that says yeah, i don't think i don't think that's the current status as a stomach bug boss or no, i liked it. well that's the we're back on the radio and we'd like to invite you to join us to morrow. it's an important day mine yeah, we need the support of all of you that will be gathering in front of the see the woman and as court to support your door that her hearing apple yandell abdel laura,
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it is a crucial day for her and she needs us there, so be there early from 7 am in front of the court house to show your support and her fight to regain her freedom.
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ah. come on for me then what's your family's hope is the position for you. okay. well, what i would like is for her son to have his mother's love canadian, and he has had to live with his grandparents. not his mother, doesn't matter. we'll pray to god that the case will be resolved and she will get her freedom back. let us leave it by, she's been oppressed for so long and unable to take care of her son badly. possibly, it goes back to the faulty investigation. the facts are all there. not much of that sort of a system based on your investigation is tail gotta innocent or guilty. made it
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easier. that's for the judges to decide based on the evidence. i'm just presenting evidence that went on for going as far as when mayor brown and let him know that to be clear was the child still born or could it have been killed all last night that nothing in the autopsy confirms the child ever drew breath bitterly. so it was still born what i think it didn't draw breath aid with what happened to your baby and i was 9 months pregnant when my baby came here. i've been imprisoned ever since i've been 11 years in prison. i how many people are in
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the same situation with emma secondly, 23 of us are accused of this crime that we did not commit quite an item from indiana from us. how were these years in prison knowing you were innocent and very difficult. then if i faced hard times in prison economy, quote them, i don't, i think i'm paying for a crime. i didn't commit, i don't like him. is that what is your message to the war? world and to countries where abortion has still criminalized all question, you may say my message is to review all the cases of women who have been convicted of a crime. similar to mine seemed that we did not commit these crimes and i did not know emma come if we need our freedom back because it's our right target in the isn't it . we have a right to freedom that they have violated our freedom with that, just not only my freedom but of many women. and it's outside of the state,
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did not support us, but discriminated against us as women better. but we have the strength and courage to keep fighting here, but if they give a channel to live, be little, what are you asking from the judges? k, like i said, emily went to give me back my freedom. can make my family to with that because i am innocent. but again, because i have a family to fight for now if i me up again, which at but because i have people who love me and need me to be with them, that's all ah, with
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. mm hm. or did you got it? was it the 30 year sentence was upheld level?
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she related. how can a prosecutor say she killed without evidence? this kind of justice is not justice. i'll see you in the hospital that was easy. ah . with fed up with the situation. we've had enough of the violence against women people of the world. please support el salvador. we are becoming more and more impoverished, but we are not pool. we aren't covered by the patriarchal capitalist system. we women will keep fighting. this is an injustice
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in ah ah. letter a flower arrangement was given to the legislature by a group of activists and family members of women in prison for health complications
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that led to miscarriage. asked for clemency for 17 women who were sentenced to prison terms of up to 40 years. they were found guilty of aggravated homicide. i see the other this is a distress signal from amnesty international. in el salvador bullshit is prohibited in cases. please help, please listen with. no, it is a country that has some of the worlds strictest abortion law has have delayed, a rolling on whether to free a woman who was sentenced to 30 years in prison after she gave birth to a still born baby. human rights organizations are calling for an end to el salvador total bond fund and i will gather yeah, go to lawyer, came and gave me a paper and said meet our meeting that you said, look, i read this step when your sentence has been reduced to the time you've already spent here on dennis had that had was, could i sample for you? i had had a pain on it, but then i took the paper and started reading. so as dara it said that i was
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absolved an appoint assessing i thought this can't be true. it's not my sentence was just upheld buffy man, but i read it again and again a 1000 times to make sure i understood nobody complained in when i did her, when i was informed that i was free, i read out the letter with the other girls that they were crying, and we love each other in here. ah, how can what we're family. ah, look what they thought. the main thing is that we stuck together one in because together we can break down the walls that surround us. ah, sad that they know that my leaving here is a door opening for them to what that lack of cabinet, but
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a ah good with morning. thank you for being here. that's going to say that the ministry of justice and security has approved the commutation of the sentence of miss taylor
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door vasquez and i've been reducing it from 30 years to 10 years and 7 months today . k adora vasquez walks free a 2nd chance at life. but i think thank you for coming in with ah, working
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only in the didn't recognize anyone, not even my siblings or my nephew, a knock on us. i didn't recognize anyone in the american media either. yes and either it was a long day, but it wasn't even tired, but i was free but afraid to face life. nobody. i couldn't believe that. he called me mamma. call it. oh cindy boy leaking within her young moth. yet, i still wasn't used to the idea that i had a teenage son, eagle. and he wasn't used to the idea that he had
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a young mother this year lady at the name of the mother calling for simple with good. but a look at her him. my mother was his mother and he has to mothers in india for yourself, even in the day i got out, i felt so much happiness yet when i filled it up and i mean my mom was in but also like i was split in to of been asked them if you could look a one up at the one part of me wanted to get out of him and the other was afraid to leave the women behind a ha. in the foot of the minimum, they told me we will also be freed. i'm in the middle of it, but i felt bad that i gotten lucky and they hadn't. you sarah taylor,
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sandy. i guess i knew the march 8th protest existed in, but i didn't know the extent of it. but my 1st time there was unforgettable. with those being with them made me think when when i'm not alone i'm stronger undertaken i will join them so we speak with one voice. hello,
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salvatore and people sisters. and all of you who are here today today is a very important day for all of us. i'm very happy and grateful. your struggle was worth it. i am the living proof. i am here to join you and fight alongside you to free the other incarcerated women. i invite each and every one of you to stand together and keep on fighting. because the site does not stop here, we will take on every one who comes because we are fighters. we will not be silent . we are women who will face anything that comes our way. i mean, hello friend, how are you? i'm very proud of you and my along with i'm so happy about all the effort you're putting in on our behalf. god bless you. take care of your son, your family. i love you very much and i hope to out there with you one day soon.
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i'm sending you lots of kisses and hugs. i love you very much a with mm hm. c o semester. so it's been less than 2 months since i regained my freedom. it's up to santa, i will never get back those 10 years of my life. little bit at, but that's my past to get them back to them by saying, i'm living my present now in the ascending and campaigning for the women who are still in prison. don't have yet the need for getting,
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i'm raising my voice on their behalf. jackie, i am calling on the legislative assembly of el salvador to speed up the process of commuting their sentences, battled and put pressure on the government of el salvador to release these 24 women being established under basic, whether there are still 24 women in prison anthony is facing enormous difficulties so that the computer ah, to keep fighting after 10 years in prison is not only extraordinary. it takes great courage to go to your door, had a common vasquez, you on inspiration to us all. ah
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news . people don't understand the reality of women. the worst thing is that women who live in the countryside in small villages are the most vulnerable. known woman who has money is in prison. not one believe me can come up with we are guilty because we are women. anyway, we have no rights from the moment we get pregnant, our lives don't matter. when say what matters is the fetus we're carrying. pm, i don't know if the mother's health doesn't matter. only the child, i imagine a 12 year old girl going to school her future still ahead of her if she gets raped and pregnant, think of it that she will be forced to have the child just because of our laws. i believe this is, i'm just gonna say we must raise our voices and say what we feel and think about
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this issue now. the 2nd mm. ah, i let them. i wanted to see them, but i didn't think it be possible for me. yes, it was good to come back and visit the prison to see every one in saying that i am here to meet and i support you and will be with you no matter what the land in good times and bad. sam, when i'll be there. ah,
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