Absolutely, but I was addressing Latin America specifically because that’s where the danger of the virus is highest and that’s where governments are telling women not to get pregnant without even pretending to contemplate the horrible ironies of such a directive in a patriarchal culture where women who miscarry are…

How about this? Not all people commenting in here are white feminists. I live in South America and I’m not Catholic anymore, and I want to be able to decide what’s best for MY body without this archaic societal views getting in the way. Also, being from another country doesn’t mean you can’t have an opinion. I think…

Which is fine if both partners are cool with no p in v sex at all. That is, unfortunately, not going to be the case for all sex-having people in El Salvador. Especially if you have people who believe that anything but p in v sex isn’t natural or who legitimately don’t enjoy anal, oral, digital, or mutual masturbation.…

No no, they still want women to have sex, (guys have their urges, amiright?). They just don’t want them to get pregnant. Or use birth control. Or have abortions. I mean, come on ladies, just do us a solid and decide not to get knocked up, okay?

Pretty much damned if they do, damned if they don't. Either risk your unborn child's health or try saying "no" to a partner (or rapist) who cares more about his boner than his wife (or victim's) needs.

“stick to oral, manual, anal, mutual masturbation”

In such a male-dominated culture the options would probably be oral and anal only, by which is meant she performs oral on him and he penetrates her anally. Seems super fun for her if she’s not particularly into those things.

It’s horrifying. They’ve painted all these women into a corner. I love, too, how the government puts all the responsibility of not getting pregnant on women.

If the fetus has microcephaly, the woman will go to jail, because obviously she just knew, and wanted it dead.

I read this article and my head nearly exploded. I did development work for 3 years in El Salvador, and because of the extremely oppressive religious and patriarchal culture there, what most young women in the countryside know about their own bodies and reproductive health could fit in a matchbox. There is little to…

Does El Salvadoran law recognize marital rape? I’m just trying to figure out what kind of recourse, if any, women there have, since they sure as shit aren’t allowed to prevent pregnancies or abort them.

Oh - and you can only abstain if your husband respects that, and in some Latin American cultures (no racist intent here, I know it’s often a matter of socioeconomic levels and education), that’s not always the case. If you can’t make him glove up, or wait till you’re not fertile, and you can’t get an abortion - your…

It’s not all that different than “pro-lifers” in more developed countries. Pregnancy is something that happens to women and is solely women’s fault, so if they don’t want to get pregnant, they need to stop being such dirty sluts and never have sex in any context except explicitly for procreation. But it’s alsio…

Considering I (and other women I assume, unless I’m a horrible abomination) only get “satisfaction” from the act of P-in-V, that sounds REAL fun...

Yes, but just for women. Their boyfriends and husbands aren’t affected.

So basically, they don’t want any woman to have sex for 2 years?

Yup, came to say this as well. And I find it HILARIOUS, in a very, very dark way, that the Deputy Health Minister is suggesting this. I bet birth control is super easy to obtain in El Salvador! I bet no woman will be raped by her husband if she decides to abstain due to risk! I bet any woman who gets pregnant in this…

Wait, wait, so a country that THROWS WOMEN IN JAIL FOR MISCARRIAGE is now pushing for pregnancy prevention?

So will they keep jailing women who miscarry? Y/n?

Right, yes. Our bodies have ways of shutting things down.

Is this one of those situations where a woman can just decide not to get pregnant, like she can decide not to get raped?