A girl grieves during the funeral of priest Walter Osmir Vásquez Jiménez, who was murdered by alleged gang members of the MS, in Lolotique, El Salvador, on April 1st, 2018.
(Photo: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images)
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Salvadoran women march at a protest calling for the decriminalization of abortion in San Salvador on September 28th, 2017.
Candles and flowers are displayed outside a grocery store on January 2nd, 2018, where a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend in the western German town of Kandel.
Joining a gang seemed like the best way to evade violence for women in El Salvador, but in many cases it only put them more squarely in danger.
The move proposed by conservatives in El Salvador's parliament has outraged the families of victims and leaders in the Roman Catholic Church.
