Editing Reproductive rights (section)

===Roman Catholic Church===
{{Further|Roman Catholicism in Latin America}}
[[File:CIA_map_of_Central_America.png|thumb|[[Central America]] has very strict anti-abortion laws, and [[El Salvador]] has come to international attention due to its forceful enforcement.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web | url=http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58299 | title=UN rights office urges el Salvador to reform 'draconian' abortion laws| date=15 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="reuters.com">{{Cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-el-salvador-abortion/u-n-calls-on-el-salvador-to-stop-jailing-women-for-abortion-idUSKBN1DI001 | title=U.N. Calls on el Salvador to stop jailing women for abortion| journal=Reuters| date=18 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-32480443 | title=The mothers being criminalised in el Salvador| journal=BBC News| date=28 April 2015| last1=Watson| first1=Katy}}</ref>]]
The [[Catholic Church]] is opposed to artificial contraception, abortion, and [[Premarital sex|sexual intercourse outside marriage]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%2038:8-10&version=NIV|title=Gen 38:8–10 NIV – Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with – Bible Gateway|work=Bible Gateway|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref> This belief dates back to the first centuries of Christianity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic.com/tracts/contraception-and-sterilization|title=Contraception and Sterilization|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124143807/http://www.catholic.com/tracts/contraception-and-sterilization|archive-date=24 November 2013}}</ref><ref name="therealpresence1">{{cite web|url=http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Abortion_Euthanasia/Abortion_Euthanasia_004.htm|title=Fr. Hardon Archives – The Catholic Tradition on the Morality of Contraception}}</ref> While Roman Catholicism is not the only religion with such views, its religious doctrine is very powerful in influencing countries where most of the population is Catholic, and the few countries of the world with complete bans on abortion are mostly Catholic-majority countries,<ref name="ChileCourt" /> and in Europe strict restrictions on abortion exist in the Catholic majority countries of [[Abortion in Malta|Malta]] (complete ban), [[Abortion in Andorra|Andorra]], [[Abortion in San Marino|San Marino]], [[Abortion in Liechtenstein|Liechtenstein]] and to a lesser extent [[Abortion in Poland|Poland]] and [[Abortion in Monaco|Monaco]].

In France, a country with a Roman Catholic tradition, abortionist [[Marie-Louise Giraud]] was [[guillotined]] on 30 July 1943 under the authoritarian [[Vichy France|Vichy regime]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 30, 2016 |title=1943: Marie-Louise Giraud, Vichy abortionist |url=https://www.executedtoday.com/2016/07/30/1943-marie-louise-giraud-vichy-abortionist/ |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website=ExecutedToday.com}}</ref>

Some of the countries of [[Central America]], notably [[Abortion in El Salvador|El Salvador]], have also come to international attention due to very forceful enforcement of the anti-abortion laws.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/07/el-salvador-rape-survivor-sentenced-to-30-years-in-jail-under-extreme-anti-abortion-law/|title=El Salvador: Rape survivor sentenced to 30 years in jail under extreme anti-abortion law|website=www.amnesty.org|date=6 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-32491838/el-salvador-women-jailed-for-miscarriages|title=Jailed for a miscarriage|work=BBC News}}</ref> El Salvador has received repeated criticism from the UN. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) named the law "one of the most draconian abortion laws in the world", and urged liberalization,<ref name="ReferenceB"/> and [[Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad|Zeid bin Ra'ad]], the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that he was "appalled that as a result of El Salvador's absolute prohibition on abortion, women are being punished for apparent miscarriages and other obstetric emergencies, accused and convicted of having induced termination of pregnancy".<ref name="reuters.com"/>