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dominance. good is step ahead with d w. business beyond. ah, me know, my name is t adora dot com and vasquez, i'm 34 years old. i've been in prison for 10 years and 6 months. ah, ah ah, ah. a abortion is a crime. thanks to

a constitution. and salvador is still one of the few countries that benz abortions in all cases. so busy over there to help with 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 with

it that i said, i mean it was the 13th of july, 2007 to agony name and i was 9 months pregnant. i was working in central san salvador in the large and the pain was unbearable. again, my thing if, when i started making calls, even though they all on the suddenly my baby is about to be born. i said the money, but i can't stand the pain. come help me, does that for the family of the police said they would come here, but they never did know you that needed to look at my baby was born there and then germany. i fainted for

yes, look at it. when i woke up, i tried to get help with my that why did you kill her? a man asked me, pomona. i haven't killed any one. i sadly applica you said yes, you killed your daughter. now you have to pay them and i kept passing out and got it. okay, i just remember waking up and then fainting again. i would be in my bathroom when i was almost dead it and those as i've been imprisoned of her side of this. yeah. they made oh the i don't 1st, they said it was an abortion. if what didn't they changed it to aggravated homicide . they sentenced me to 30 years.

ah. when the summer when the door opened, i didn't want to look inside. don't look at any event but an end. not acadia. i didn't want to talk to anyone. who could i can, i didn't want any one talking to me. but that he had an enemy with me. i wanted my baby, but i'd already bought clothes for her. that i was so excited they're missing the missing women's sleep on the floor at 1st. get out and slept on the floor for 7 months and i used to lie there crying. now i left 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 anything i was afraid that i would never get out again. i thought i won't survive. i'm going to die year money. hey,

in a momento, the load is yet public again, 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. levy the army van, he demanded that they give him land cattle, a house and a car by the limit, again on my bill and that army. my parents asked me if they should give him the house, but i couldn't leave them on the street. very napoleon, headline, a guy. so i decided not to have a lawyer as itsyana, and i will that i preferred to stay in prison longer. if it meant my parents and my son would still have a place to live. you gave me fallacy needle to be another living.

i don't know how the years went by and my son grew up without me. me look at the end of so i mean by that is my parents were always worried because they didn't have money to visit me. i was 21 and i was born when dad, when he was 3 years old, i got pregnant again. like to visit me most when i was very excited because i wanted to have 2 children and okay, makeeta is that what i want most is to be with anal gabrielle it element, but i missed the best of his childhood. no, i am. 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 a mis

a better. 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 have the right to live on. the other one might any more had more than 3000 women live in the prison. can't they cannot. 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. so i mean, if there are only 6 toilets for all these women,

j m would have gone 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 fatal. no, 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 for the 1st 2 classes. one them. and i don't think that when they said 30 years, my 1st thought was not really not gonna buy something. i mean, i've lost everything. yeah. but i mean, i thought of innocent. i haven't seen my daughter since i've been here. but the thing was that i, i don't know how she is doing. i know nothing doing . i was young. i had a fight with the father of my 1st daughter, and yet 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

a lot. my daughter saw me bleeding 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 on my left. then 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. and i was alone in a room. but in the enemy, on the day of my hearing, there was no evidence against me. they only the testimony of one witness. and the dna test ended up when i did the ann who was the witness my daughters father who hit you yesterday. and you couldn't all know better since the prosecutor was on their side. they didn't allow lawyer to speak. minnie, i don't know. and they didn't allow my father to speak rather men in a i don't, he was my only witness. and i mean, it's like that on up the ladder. mm hm. but i've been here for almost 11 years and they sentenced me to 30. but what happened to you now was i was accused of

aggravated homicide. yes, i was at the hospital a felon there. i all squire was handcuffed ab border mosquito. they said i was charged with murder telling me that i had killed my own daughter, mickey i, i was sure she no, no, no, no, you won't. i fell down. it was an accident. i have been along. i almost about my daughter a living me ha, they didn't let me see her a moment. i can sit on the day, mary, you don't care. they asked me why i did it. but anyway, i didn't understand what was happening in and then because i hadn't b o s b instead. but who did it? the doctors blame you have doctors called the police law the thought anyway,

but okay. yeah, not on a lab than they are. i didn't understand dana, 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 hadn't been going on in any one of my daughters is 15 years old than the other is 12. i got pregnant after being raped by 3 men and i'm one of them was my brother. he went to me my to for 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. yeah. and whether 14 policemen were standing at the door of the church and i asked them, why are you looking for me? and they said my name am and i said yes, that's me. sandra,

they said you're under arrest for murder. i asked, why 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. my parents were no longer there to take care of them. he didn't want to leave them, was my brother, the one who had hurt me? my brother and his friends have their families, while my daughters are suffering from media and sam man back and they're having a hard time on their own. and i'm suffering without them. he also has family now life has been really hard on me in that regard to what i mean. like only in this ethnic yes he has. he started, i thought, so if i'm the only one,

maybe they just got it wrong or it was maybe they just made a mistake. try to thank god it was to find out again when i learned that there were more of us, i got very angry. think it would be of wayne and because it means that el salvador sees women as property, haven't yet that i'm, well, you know, 2nd, because that's the end of the dilemma. that is there, but it didn't answer any of these laws, allow them to rule over us. and the last young getting on their next sunday night put out. but we cannot allow women to continue to be imprisoned for pregnancy emergencies is to help and not do anything about the situation where and not have you been directed to help with family man. you seem like we've heard strong relationships, we've decided to unite and defend ourselves as a mentor. think about it, but lawyers with the citizens group for the di criminalization of abortion came in 2012 and i'm glad they called us like a 17. am on the west. we agree 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. yet on as the shock of family and the bentley at the moment. okay. the ambassadors told us they needed a spokes person to represent us when the girls chose me cafe 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 have our spiritual freedom. seen their alba by the end of the as delora. and she said about the order said go ahead. this is we started with 17 women. now there are more of the since 2009. we have identified a 129 cases, gamble hand difficult ah.

the 3rd a but then in addition to political, lobbying mobilization and campaigning, no, the citizens group has a legal team that follows up on cases haley and if the has cases on not just one in the court room, they are one in the streets of an armoire a guy but other than the f m l n party presented a penal code reform to decriminalize abortion affordable. there is a save the lie, 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. i propose that condo, sal palazzo. they will love your less you, when as a result of re, 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 though happening. let us know this seems to

contradict the 2nd article of the constitution enshrining the right to life of every person. you know that a joy levy the i believe. but as you're there is there ways 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 more because you in their sal got the got with that is the some of them will get out the cost. if we are democratic, look at the percentages for them. that gwent of the members of the legislator will see that if they vote legalized abortion they will be going against the vast majority of the population. this young, which is christian, collect 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 to, to ears. hello. dasanya. blue headed the glass in the middle or upper class women who have more money. you have 2 options and adopt either they go to

a private clinic and pay over $1000.00 for an abortion, or they go abroad for the procedure. what i think by isa dante larry, elise hung out, i will begin with that. i'll murder is now considered a human right and into my mother's right. i'll 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 wonder a little, but again, a few more cannot any sound 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 hollow to platform, daniel known woman should go to jail for having an abortion. ah.

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 sincerely. i believe it is essential for justice to sierra way on the charge against a adora was aggravated homicide. major contradictions here. select itala, one up a. so another thing of the killing of a newborn think they are 30 to 40 weeks gestation shemelle from an end who was born alive, but died of param, natal asphyxia. davy, though, and i'll fix up late enough that he signs of a 6 year by drowning were found. see a lot of it. you born died of parent a to las fix year that she could not have died by drowning matthews. things are mutually exclusive. film parent to las, fix it as a natural cause of death and not what it cannot be one on the other at the same time, like last name. again,

i don't think the judges even read the autopsy yet. i love dr. when the lady and that girl, when i read tale dora's file, which is very extensive, and i must admit, i thought this woman is guilty to fe. 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 was it possible that a woman who wants to have an abortion calls the police 5 times to ask them for help? yeah, i play is for them in their law. he guided the medical evidence as conclusive sympathy . she had a pre term bertha placental abrupt sion with heavy bleeding and lost consciousness . the system for medical history is consistent with the information she provided am . and if yes, the sam at i thought i was 9 months pregnant and i was robbed when i was on my way to san salvador with my sick mother, anthony m we f m. i was robbed on the bus,

isn't that on any of the man tried to steal my phone and jumped towards me on my landing right on my belly. diana, miss tyler elizabeth, living alone in a blow 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 thought 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. look at if you provoke or instigate in 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 births, they report any kind of termination of pregnancy and inherently, this is massaging, stigmatization, and persecution for being 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 a right to life, then the little i mean, ah some of which under bruce, i mean we are fighting for this error to be corrected, but a judges go after 6 months of fighting with court of appeals agreed to review the case, i only got you, that's the current status as a stomach bug me boss or not? 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 that. you see the whole menendez called to support your daughter at her hearing. apple. yandell

abdul. laura, it is a crucial day for her and she needs us there. so be there early from 7 am in front of the courthouse to show your support and her fight to regain have freedom with

ah, with common for me that what's your family's hope is to position for you? okay. well, what i would like is to her son, to have his mother's love. he has had to live with his grandparents, not his mother desolate, and that we all pray to god that the case will be resolved and she will get her freedom back. let us down by she's been oppressed for so long and unable to take care of her son than they possibly hope it goes back to the faulty investigation. the facts are all there. so much of that, that one of the system based on your investigation is tail gotta innocent or guilty

. maybe that's for the judges to decide based on the evidence. and i'm just presenting evidence for that going as far as when mayor brown and said that to be clear, was the child still born or could it have been killed or oh, i feel 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. i had a meeting with what happened to your baby earlier today? i was 9 months pregnant when my baby came here. i've been in prison ever since 11

years in prison. i how many people are in the same situation with emma to 23 of us are accused of this crime that we did not commit quite an item from indiana for months. how were these years in prison knowing you were innocent? very difficult. then if i faced hard times in prison, jeremy caught them. i don't, i think i'm paying for a crime. i didn't commit a step. i know that he doesn't know for mckinney home to let him is. i mean, what is your message to the war world and to countries, lord 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 this crime. somebody took a knowing look and we need our freedom back because it's our right 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 i thought that the state did not

support us but discriminated against us as women battle. but we have the strength and courage to keep fighting here. but i think you have a channel to live below. what are you asking from the judge's game? like i said, emily went to give me back my freedom can, like i said, i wonder at that because i am innocent. but again, because i have a family to fight for now if i me up again, which had but the thing because i have people who love me and need me to be with them. that's all it's ah with

. mm hm. are you got it? was it the 30 or sentence was upheld level?

she like how can a prosecutor say she killed without evidence? this kind of justice is not justice. i'll see you in august is on that was easy. ah . with fed up with this situation. we've had enough of the violence against women people of the. 2 world please support our salvador. we are becoming more and more impoverished, but we are not paul. we uncovered by the patriarchal capitalist system we

women will keep fighting. this is an injustice. warning will in ah, a flower arrangement was given to the legislature by

a group of activists and family members of women in prison for health complications that lead to miscarriage. they've asked for clemency for 17 women who were sentenced to prison terms of up to 40 years. they were found guilty of aggravated homicide. if you do that, either. this is a distress signal from amnesty international. in el salvador bullshit is prohibited in cases. please listen with nellin. it is a country that has some of the world strictest abortion law just 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 totally bond plan and i will gather yeah. got a lawyer, came and gave me a paper and said meet him as he left his stomach. i read this step with your sentence has been reduced to the time you've already spent here on dennis had left edward could i sample for you?

i had a pain and a pretending i took the paper and started reading so as dara. it said that i was absolved, and of gwinnett says he may thought this can't be true. i said my sentence was just upheld better now, but i read it again and again a 1000 times to make sure i understood nobody complained. ah, when i hit on, 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 i what we're family of 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 a hi . with good morning and we 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 theodore vasquez been reducing it from 30 years to 10 years and 7 months today . ted or vasquez walks free a 2nd chance at life. but i think thank you for coming in with a a

i me didn't recognize anyone, not even my siblings or my nephew, a knock honestly. i didn't recognize any one of them would let me listen. yes, and you know, it was a long day, but i wasn't even tired what i was free, but afraid to face life. nobody. i couldn't believe that. he called me mamma. call it. oh cindy boy, looking within her young medea 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

a young mother yet this year lady at the never normally halling. for simple i would get but a look and i her him, my mother was his mother and he has to mothers in india carefully leaving the day i got out and i felt so much happiness there. yeah. and i fill it up and i mean my mom was in but also like i was split into the bathroom if you were kill one that bad at the one part of me wanted to get out of it. and the other was afraid to leave the women behind a ha to some minimum, they told me we will also be freed. i mean the, me to have it. but i felt bad that i gotten lucky and they hadn't the 7th day them

savvy, 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 in does mean with them made me think when when i'm not alone, i'm stronger and i will join them so we speak with one voice.

hello, salvatore and people sisters. and all of you who are here today today is a very important day for all of us. i am 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. with me. hello friend, how are you? i'm very proud of you and my dog when 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 be out there with you one day soon.

i'm sending you lots of kisses and hugs. i love you very much. a plan with . mm. ah see. oh no. so my sister, 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 pass to get somebody did any back that i'm living my present now. i mean, descending, and campaigning for the women who are still in prison. don't have yeah. that the

need for getting 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 been sent back to quite there are still 24 women in prison antonio, facing enormous difficulties so that the company, ah, to keep fighting after 10 years in prison is not only extraordinary. it takes great courage to your door, had a common vasquez, you on inspiration to us all. ah

ah, 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. no woman who has money is in prison. not one believe me. i mean, some of we been thinking we are guilty because we are women. we have no rights from the moment we get pregnant. our lives don't matter with what matters is the fetus we're carrying in at the mothers 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 thing, and i think she will be forced to have the child just because of our laws. jealousy, i believe this is unjust. we must raise our voices and say what we feel and think

about this issue now. mm pool. 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 everyone in saying that i am here. it is. i support you and will be with you no matter what the least in good times and bad. sam, when i'll be there. ah,

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