Abortion in Chile: The Long Road to Legalization and its Slow Implementation

Until as recently as September 2017, Chile was one of the few countries in the world that did not permit abortion under any circumstances. Although the Health Code had permitted therapeutic abortion (i.e., on health grounds) from 1931, this was repealed in 1989 as one of General Pinochet’s last acts...

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Main Authors: Gloria Maira, Lidia Casas, Lieta Vivaldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights 2019-12-01
Series:Health and Human Rights
Online Access:https://www.hhrjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2469/2019/12/Vivaldi.pdf