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What does that have to do with anything? El Salvadorans are entitled to run their country according to their own culture and beliefs. It’s called self determination and it’s a recognized right of free peoples. Last I checked women in El Salvador can vote and could change the rule if that’s what they wanted, but they don’t.

The El Salvadoran Constitution recognizes a right to life beginning at conception. Technically, Germany’s Basic Law enshrines the same right according to the interpretation of its high court, although Germany takes a different view of how that right should be balanced against other values of the basic law like individual self determination: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ctx.2002.1.2.27. People being able to make these sorts of trade offs between different values is the core of democracy.



And I’m entitled to point out their awful draconian policies




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