Decriminalization of abortion in Chile

History, rage and resistance

Abstract

There is a clear progress and legal, political and social construction around abortion and its decriminalization, the bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies in Chile, is the first concrete and legislative act that a government performs after the amendment that in 1989, the dictator Augusto Pinochet formalized in article 119 of the health code, prohibiting abortion in all its forms. While this progress is seen in the adoption of the project seeking to decriminalize abortion in Chile, it is possible to note that compulsory motherhood clearly exceeds the three proposed causes; danger to the mother's life, lethal fetal inviability and pregnancy resulting from rape. Women will continue to abort in precarious and clandestine conditions, suppressed by the patriarchal system to a violent and accusing space, conditioned by archaic and sexist regulations, being tried by a murderous state.