Sara García Gross

Sara García Gross (born 1986) is a Salvadoran activist, feminist, and human rights defender. She is the coordinator of political advocacy for the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Therapeutic, Ethical, and Eugenic Abortion, founded in 2009. She is also a member of the Salvadoran Network of Women Human Rights Defenders. In 2019, she was presented with France's Simone de Beauvoir Prize for her work to promote abortion rights.

Sara García Gross
Born1986 (age 33–34)
Chalchuapa, El Salvador
Education
OccupationActivist
AwardsSimone de Beauvoir Prize (2019)

Biography

Sara García Gross was born in Chalchuapa in 1986.[1] She earned a degree from the Central American University in psychology. She specialized in gender studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As of June 2019, she resides in Buenos Aires, where she is pursuing a master's degree in Human Rights and Democratization for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National University of General San Martín.[2]

In 2014, she presented the audio report Del Hospital a la Cárcel, which deals with issues related to women's sexual and reproductive rights.[3]

The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Therapeutic, Ethical, and Eugénic Abortion, for which Gross works, is a multidisciplinary social organization that seeks to raise awareness to change Salvadoran legislation on abortion. In addition, they promote sex education and defend women who have been charged or convicted of abortion or related matters.[2] García is also a member of the Salvadoran Network of Women Human Rights Defenders.[4]

In January 2019, Paris Diderot University awarded her the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for her efforts to decriminalize abortion in cases of rape, human trafficking, when the mother's life is in danger, or when the mother is a minor.[5]

References
  1. Guenaga, Aitor (6 June 2013). "'Las ricas abortan, las pobres se desangran en El Salvador'" ['The Rich Abort, the Poor Bleed in El Salvdor']. eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  2. Fernández Bravo, Ezequiel (20 June 2019). "Militar donde el aborto es ilegal" [Militating Where Abortion is Illegal]. Clarín Revista Ñ (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  3. Ayala, Edgardo (14 July 2017). "Estado salvadoreño continúa encarcelando a mujeres por aborto" [Salvadoran State Continues to Imprison Women for Abortion] (in Spanish). San Salvador. Inter Press Service. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  4. "El Salvador is one of the few countries that have not yet made the decision that women's lives matter" (PDF). Civicus. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  5. Calderón, Beatriz (9 January 2019). "Salvadoreña Sara García Gross gana premio internacional Simone de Beauvoir" [Salvadoran Sara García Gross Wins International Simone de Beauvoir Prize]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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