Local Activist Speaks About El Savador's 'Las 17'

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published August 26, 2015 at 12:23 PM EDT

A human rights and peace activist from Northampton, Massachusetts has just returned from El Salvador. Paki Wieland traveled there with a group of other activists to bring attention to the plight of women imprisoned for violating the country’s strict anti-abortion laws. The women insist they suffered miscarriages or stillbirths. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Wieland.

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