Even contraception is hard to get in many of these countries. Honduras criminalizes abortion without exception and bars any emergency contraception. In El Salvador, contraception is scarce, rape is rampant, and abortion under any circumstance is punishable by up to 50 years in prison. The teenage pregnancy rate there is extremely high, with a third of all babies born in the country to mothers who are between 10 and 19. A sizable but hard to quantify portion of those pregnancies result from rape, according to El Salvador’s health ministry, and 3 out of 8 maternal deaths there are suicides by pregnant girls under 19, according to government figures reported by Reuters in 2014.
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