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Abortion in Chile: contributions to the debate from women's perspective.
This article was originally presented at the debate forum, Legalizacion del Aborto en Chile, No Abortemos el Debate (On the Legalization of Abortion in Chile, Let's Not Abort the Debate), organized by Corporacion Humanas and the Foro Red de Salud y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (Forum Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights). The author is an economist and one of the coordinators of the Red Chilena contra la Violencia Domestica y Sexual (Chilean Network Against Sexual and Domestic Violence).
Abortion in an experience of women. Throughout history women have resorted to abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy. Over centuries, abortion was ...
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...progressive" who thinks abortion is a marginal matter of...Does criminalization stop abortion? Chile has 150,000 illegal abortions a year. That's one in...country. Criminalization means abortion is unsafe. One in five Chilean...
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- News wire article from: Interpress Service September 25, 2006 700+ words
...show short films about abortion. "Our main aim is...because women who have abortions are still seen as murderers...Health and Rights in Chile, made up of more than...reinstatement of therapeutic abortion (carried out when the...women who undergo abortions risk prison terms of...
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...concluding observations on Chile's fourth periodic report...official capacity, and Chile is no exception. Since...Under the Criminal Code, abortion is an offence, but given...very aim of preventing abortions, Chile has for 40 years been...
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- Magazine article from: Women's Health Journal Gomez, Adriana January 1, 2003 700+ words
...with one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. Abortion is totally prohibited in Chile, even when the woman's life or health is at risk. Women who have abortions, those who provide abortion services, and anyone who helps...
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...Abstract: Abortion is not legal in Chile even to save...practitioners. Abortion incidence...incomplete abortions. Although...report illegal abortions to the authorities...hospital with abortion complications...Catholic church, Chile Resume L...
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- News wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire Daniela Estrada August 28, 2009 700+ words
...complications after abortions induced with...the crime of abortion, which carries...sentence. In Chile, abortion...recognising that abortion is legally...arising from abortions, that could...ratified by Chile in 1988, the...circumstances of their abortions also ...
- Abortion for health-related reasons: an urgently needed debate.
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Journal Vidal, Paulina Tijero, Marcia Salazar, Gloria October 1, 2008 700+ words
...studied information on abortion in Latin America...change in favor of abortion for health-related reasons in Chile, as well as to develop...who had requested abortion for health-related...who had asked for abortions under these circumstances...
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- Magazine article from: Women's Health Journal Gomez, Adriana October 1, 2008 700+ words
...reflected on all of these issues during her visit to Chile, where she met with local organizations struggling to change the legal status of abortion. In Chile, abortion is totally illegal, actively penalized and stigmatized...
Source: HighBeam Research, Abortion in Chile: contributions to the debate from women's...