TIME00070
Latin America and the Caribbean
El Salvador
Yes
Abortion
Restrict
Legal reform
04-1998
El Salvador: The country’s absolute ban on abortion entered into force on April 20, 1998, one year after the adoption of the new Criminal Procedure Code by Congress. In addition to providing new offenses related to abortion and more severe penalties, the new legislation eliminated the exceptions that were recognized before 1997: the therapeutic, ethical and eugenic abortion.