The right to abortion reaches the draft of the new Chilean Constitution

Santiago, Chile, March 15, the plenary session of the Constitutional Convention of Chile, which is responsible for the development of the new country Magna Carta, approved on Tuesday an article on the rights of sex of the al and reproductive law, which establishes abortion, to develop a final text that will be a referendum this year. With a visa with 108 votes, 39 votes against and 6 abstentions, “everyone has sexual and reproductive rights, including, among other things, the right to decide freely, independently and informly about exercising sexuality, reproduction, satisfaction and contraception.” In the second paragraph of the article “States pay special attention to gender, inclusiveness and cultural relevance, ensuring the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights without discrimination (...) The ability of all women and people to tolerate, pregnancy conditions, spontaneous abortion, childbirth and spontaneous and protected motherhood.” “We were given a mission after the painful abandonment of the Congress of the Republic, which did not take into account the necessary measures that our country would take to establish fundamental rights. Today we break the cycle of exclusion and discrimination in the history of the Constitution. I had to wait 200 years.” According to Barbara Sepulveda, the existing component of the Communist Party. This is a historic vote waiting for thousands in South American countries, a scene of a strong wave of feminists who have played a leading role across the country in recent years, including the Day of Protests that were recreated in all cities at the end of 2019. Legal abortion is the historical demand of Latin American feminist groups, where only four states were decriminalized: Argentina, Colombia (up to 24 states), Cuba, Uruguay, Guyana and Mexico. Various studies have shown that by 2017, approximately 70,000 abortions were conducted in Chile each year, all of them are hidden. According to the Ministry of Health, 1827 legal abortions were registered in Chile between 2018 and 2020, indicating that tens of thousands of women are still illegally stopping their pregnancy.