H.Con.Res. 39 · 118th Congress

Expressing the sense of Congress to support the case of Beatriz, a young woman from a rural area of El Salvador, living in extreme poverty and with lupus, who fought for her life against the state to allow her to terminate a pregnancy that put her at risk, which exposed the serious consequences of the absolute criminalization of abortion in El Salvador, and urging the Salvadoran state to assume its international obligations in the field of human rights.

Stage
In committee
Introduced
2023-05-02
Latest action
2023-05-05 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Subjects

International affairs
Health care coverage and access
Human rights
Latin America
Women's health
Abortion
El Salvador