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This commentary is part of the "Latin Pulse" program that went online on Jan. 31, 2014: https://soundcloud.com/latinpulse/tracking-presidential-races-el-salvador-costa-rica-lp1312014

This commentary tells the story of one woman in Mexico accused of having an illegal abortion, but speaks for women in Mexico, Central America and throughout the hemisphere facing similar charges.

This commentary features Macarena Saez of the Washington College of Law at American University: http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/msaez/

The image is from Wikimedia and is available via a GNU Free Documentation License: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latin_America_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg