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The Guardian – The treatment of a 22-year-old pregnant woman in El Salvador who was repeatedly denied potentially life-saving medical care due to the country's absolute abortion ban has caused worldwide outrage.</p>
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The woman, known as Beatriz, has lupus and kidney disease, and the foetus she carried, missing parts of its skull and brain, posed a real threat to her life. Yet Beatriz endured a 14-week wait as the Salvadoran supreme court repeatedly denied her permission to end her pregnancy, even though it could save her life. Only under intense pressure from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights did Salvadoran officials find a legal loophole enabling Beatriz's doctors to perform an emergency caesarean, after which the foetus died. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jul/05/el-salvador-abortion-womens-rights" target="_blank">Lire la suite</a></p>
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