San Luis Potosi State Court Quashes Conviction of Woman Who Had Miscarriage Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original August 29, 2013

Hilda López de la Cruz (Cuartoscuro)

MEXICO CITY – The highest court in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi overturned the one-year prison sentence imposed on Hilda Lopez de la Cruz after she suffered a miscarriage.

“The chamber decided my innocence and all I know is that I am innocent,” the 22-year-old told a press conference Tuesday in Mexico City.

Her legal odyssey began in July 2009, when Lopez, then six weeks pregnant, arrived at the municipal hospital in Tamuin, San Luis Potosi, suffering from stomach pains that turned out to be a miscarriage.

Doctors notified the prosecutor’s office that it could be an abortion and hurried her away half-naked to the municipal police.

After spending the night in a police lockup, Hilda was released until 2012 when a state judge ordered her arrest for having had an abortion, which is illegal in San Luis Potosi.

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