VALPARAISO, Chile (Reuters) -An effort by Chilean President Gabriel Boric to expand abortion rights in the final months of his administration could finally give him a progressive legacy after ...

Abortion has constituted a crime in Chile since 1874. The 1874 penal code, still in force, prohibits abortion in all cases. In 1931, a national health law (Código Sanitario) ...

On Tuesday (May 27), the government of President Gabriel Boric presented a bill to the Chilean Congress to legalize abortion on demand without specific grounds up to 14 weeks of gestation. This ...

Currently, abortion is legal in Chile only when the mother's life is at risk, if the fetus would not survive the pregnancy or during the first 12 weeks if the fetus is the product of rape.

For most of Chile’s democratic history, abortion had been prohibited. In 2017, the Chilean Senate approved exceptions in cases of rape, fetal inviability and risk to the mother’s life.

Demonstrators in Chile gather to protest in favour of abortion rights, among other things, on International Women’s Day on March 8, 2023 [Charis McGowan/Al Jazeera] Pinochet legacy.

A clause in the draft of Chile’s new constitution that would have annulled current abortion rules in the South American country failed to reach enough support in a vote Friday.

Chile's proposed law would decriminalize abortion and allow for the termination of pregnancies up to 14 weeks under any circumstance, putting the country on par with neighboring Argentina.

VALPARAISO, Chile - An effort by Chilean President Gabriel Boric to expand abortion rights in the final months of his administration could finally give him a progressive legacy after three years ...

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