The Inter-American Court of Human Rights left it firm with the case of Manuela, one of 74 women sentenced to 30 years in prison after an obstetric emergency. El Salvador is infamously known internationally for torturing impoverished women.
The story was almost always the same: contractions confused by a stomach pain that led them to a bathroom, almost always a septic tank, where they gave birth to their babies without any attention or help. When help reached them, instead of seeing them as a person who needed help, they were labeled as suspects.