The right to abortion was included in the draft of the new Chilean Constitution after the plenary session of the assembly that is drafting it approved an article on sexual and reproductive rights.
The inclusion of this article, however, is only a framework on which laws that establish deadlines, processes and other details that must go through the corresponding debates in Congress must later be drawn up.
In addition, the draft Constitution must be submitted to a referendum.
“The State guarantees the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights (…) as well as access to information, education, health and the services and benefits necessary for this”, says the article, which guarantees women “the conditions for a pregnancy, termination voluntary and protected pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood”.
According to the text, sexual and reproductive rights include “the right to decide freely, autonomously and informed about one’s own body, about the exercise of sexuality, reproduction, pleasure and contraception”.
With this article, “what we have is a state that recognizes sexual and reproductive rights, in the first place, an issue that we did not have before,” Danitza Pérez, who heads the association of feminist lawyers Abofem, told Reuters.
Since 2017, abortion is only allowed in Chile for three reasons: when the mother’s life is in danger, when the fetus or embryo is unviable and when the pregnancy is the result of rape.
Source: CNN Brasil
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