Women's Health in El Salvador

I found this article from the New York Times Magazine while browsing around the internet. It's a interesting article about the current abortion laws in El Salvador, and it disgusted me. In El Salvador abortion is illegal, and both the woman seeking an abortion and the doctor or otherwise performing it face jail time if caught. There is no exception for the health or the life of the mother, nothing for rape or incest. Doctors are even scared to end ectopic pregnancies, where a fertilized egg gets stuck in the fallopian tube. That situation does not result in a baby, but in pain and possible death for the woman. If done early, a simple operation can remove the fetus. If its allowed to grow until the organ ruptures it becomes a medical emergency. In El Salvador, the unlucky women are forced to wait until the fetus dies on its own or their fallopian tube ruptures, before the operation is allowed.

I just don't understand the view that a group of cells is more important than an already living life.

There are people that want these sorts of laws in the United States too. They must truly hate women and want to cause all kinda of needless suffering.