Mexican Woman Fights One-Year Jail Sentence for Having an Abortion IANS/EFE
go to original July 20, 2013

Women take part in a protest in Mexico City against the jailing of women if they have an abortion. (EFE)

MEXICO CITY - A woman sentenced to one year in jail for having an abortion has taken her case to the highest court in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, her legal defense team told EFE Friday.

"We see this sentence as discriminatory, not in line with due process and has been imposed based solely on Hilda's confession, which she gave under pressure," the defendant's attorney, Alma Beltran y Puga, said in an interview.

The attorney of the Selective Reproduction Information Group, or GIRE, said the case goes back to July 2009, when the woman, then six weeks pregnant, arrived at a hospital "with a medical complication" that turned out to be a miscarriage.

Doctors notified the prosecutor's office that it could be an abortion. The next day the woman was taken to a police station, though quickly released.

Several days later, however, the woman was arrested, "accused of the crime of abortion", and was sent to jail, though she was released after posting bail of 3,000 pesos ($236), the GIRE attorney said.

On April 5 the judge sentenced the woman to a year behind bars.

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