Migrant women who were raped before crossing the border face restrictive abortion laws in the US. Mexican cartels use sexual violence as a weapon against migrants, who sometimes discover they are pregnant after arriving in the United States as asylum seekers.
Those who cannot pay with money do so with their bodies, as is the case with this woman. She is part of a disturbing pattern of violence emerging on the Mexican side of the U.S. border, where cartels systematically kidnap and rape migrants, as well as those who are trying to cross the border.