Seven years ago this girl name Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez Aldana went to jail in El Salvador, She was initially charged with abortion but applicants elevated the charge to aggravated homicide, arguing that the fetus was viable. This girl always gratified that she didn’t have an abortion but that she had lost her unborn baby because of medical complications late in the pregnancy.
On Wednesday, El Salvador’s “Legislative Assembly approved a recommendation by the country’s high court”, Vasquez was to be free from blame! That’s a big turn of events in a country with one of the strongest anti-abortions laws in the world. Even when the health of the mother is at risk, abortion is illegal.
Vasquez herself had been sentenced to 30 years after being found guilty of killing her unborn baby. During the year of 2007 Vasquez was 18 years old. The pregnancy was the result of being raped by her employer. Vasquez says she delivered a stillborn baby alone in her small room at her employer’s house. Later when she continued to have heavy bleeding did she seek help at a hospital. In El Salvador, medical staff are required to report suspected abortions to the police. She was arrested at the hospital. Her 30-year sentence reflected the Salvadoran constitution, which was amended in 1999 to declare that life begins at conception. Article 1 of the Salvadoran constitution now gives a fetus the same legal protections as a person. The court says there were fundamental problems with the legal proceedings against her, including a lack of scientific evidence about what caused the death of her baby.
There is no right for abortion during my point of view, but it is cruel how girls get raped! No fetus has the right to be kill during anytime. Some cases are unbelievable this girl Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez has no right to be in jail for her own rights because she was raped.
VMU • Feb 11, 2015 at 2:18 pm
I think every women has the right to choose what to do with her body. begging raped is never a choice. She was suffering enough and thinking if she would love that baby and looking for the best. I am sure that government is so corrupt that they don’t even care that she was raped and maybe they just followed their religion wihtout valueing the woman in front of them.
dr95mike • Feb 9, 2015 at 9:21 am
I’m shocked that she was sentenced for so many years over. She was raped and accused of killing her baby. Don’t you think she has suffered enough? If there is not enough evidence to prove that she commite da crime then let her be free. She was raped by a employer, what makes you think she would want the baby. I am completely against abortion, but this situation is some what a tough one.
lex • Feb 5, 2015 at 2:13 pm
A fetus and a baby that has actually came out of their mother’s womb are two different things. Though I am completely against abortion, a woman has every right to decide what should happen to the life that’s growing inside of her, especially if it was an act of rape.
nodrama • Feb 5, 2015 at 12:21 pm
I believe is the right of the women carrying the baby to decide if abortion is right or wrong. This is good news it shows improvement in our society on evolution and the way we think through out time. Open minded people equals a better society. There should be a define line between a fetus and an actual full grown baby. I believe doing the abortion procedure, when you can its justified but doing it after then in my eyes your’re actually killing a baby.
Doug • Feb 5, 2015 at 8:52 am
Abortion will always be a debate whether it is from a religious point of view, political, emotional, and personal. In my opinion Carmen shouldn’t be locked up because her fetus was a due to a conception by an act of rape.
NewsmanJim • Feb 4, 2015 at 1:12 pm
Abortion is a touchy topic in general. Abortion should be legalized under certain circumstances, especially in the case of rape or incest. Carmen’s medical conditions were a viable reason for an abortion. Carmen should not be locked up due the fact that she was raped and aborted a fetus.