Viterna's research on Las 17 featured in Harper's feature story

Viterna and Guardado found “at every stage of the judicial process, the state aggressively pursued the mother’s prosecution instead of pursuing the truth.”

Anti-abortion image in El Salvador, 2016

“Innocents: Letter from El Salvador, Where Pregnant Women have More to Fear than Zika,” by Rachel Nolan, Harper's, October, 2016, pp 55-68, featuring Viterna's research. 

Viterna in the News

JOCELYN VITERNA
Jocelyn Viterna is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her current research examines how the passage of anti-abortion legislation in El Salvador transformed the Salvadoran legal, judicial, and medical systems, with powerful and negative...

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JOCELYN VITERNA

Professor of Sociology, Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Harvard University

 

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