Sara García Gross


Sara García Gross 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.

Biography

Sara García Gross was born in Chalchuapa in 1986. 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.
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 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. García is also a member of the Salvadoran Network of Women Human Rights Defenders.
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.