Sara García Gross

Sara García Gross (born 1986) is a Salvadoran activist, psychologist, living through the 1979–1992 Salvadoran Civil War as a child.

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

The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Therapeutic, Ethical, and Eugénic Abortion, for which Gross works, is a multidisciplinary social organization that advocates for changing Salvadoran legislation on abortion, created in 2009. In addition, they promote sex education and defend women who have been charged or convicted of abortion or related matters. The organization has brought 11 cases before the IACHR in its efforts to free women convicted of abortion. Abortion in El Salvador is illegal and has been since changes to the law in 1998 removed exceptions present in the Penal Code of 1973. El Salvador is one of 6 Latin American countries that ban abortion. Abortion is tied to socioeconomic factors, as most prosecutions under the law were brought against young impoverished women with little education.

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.