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(From AP Worldstream)
Byline: EDUARDO GALLARDO
Chile began supplying morning-after pills to girls as young as 14 this week under a program that has created an uproar in the politically leftist but socially conservative country, which still outlaws all abortions and only legalized divorce two years ago.
The liberalized contraceptive policy is close to the heart of President Michelle Bachelet, a socialist physician who took office as Chile's first female president in March vowing to promote equality between men and women.
"Equality means that for a person who does not have choices, who does not have options, we have to give them these options," Bachelet told The Associated Press at the United Nations last week.
It also…