FILE PHOTO: Sara Rogel, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for a suspected abortion and released after serving nearly a third of her prison sentence, talks during an interview in Suchitoto, El Salvador, July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Sara Rogel, a Salvadoran woman who spent 10 years in prison on charges of violating the South American country's harsh abortion ban when she terminated her own pregnancy, is trying to get her life back after being released last week.
Rogel, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison, was arrested in October 2012 after going to a hospital with bleeding caused by what she said was a fall at home. But she was prosecuted for having an abortion.
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