In Chile has installed a vivid debate on the replenishment of therapeutic abortion, from the testimony of a journalist pregnancy affected by a viable fetus who was unable to abort. His ex-claim, heard on television by millions of people, has opened for public discussion a subject traditionally silenced and even banned in national debates. Other women in similar conditions have already begun to give moving testimonies.
a result there were two draft laws on therapeutic abortion in addition to earlier proposals, and they move in the direction of replacing a right that was curtailed by the military dictatorship. The Sebastián Piñera government, however, has already announced that it will not support any legislation to that effect, clearly demonstrating his total disrespect for life, health and women's rights.
Therefore, we hold that in Chile women's human rights sexuality and reproduction are not recognized, respected and protected, and that the State is directly responsible for this serious omission being the absolute criminalization of abortion, including the therapeutic, the clearest sign of this. This means that if a woman is at risk of life and health for pregnancy, if this is the result of rape or if the fetus has very serious defects, will be precluded from requesting a safe and legal termination of pregnancy, and if you decide not to continue must go to the illicit market of clandestine abortion. The imposition of state institutions about what can or can not do the women in their lives and bodies is unacceptable and violates the ethical principles of self-determination and autonomy to which every human being should be entitled.
Annually, between 120,000 and 160,000 women of various ages and social status clandestine abortions are performed in the country, most of them unhealthy, at the hands of untrained, at the risk of being denounced, imprisoned, battered and even die because of these risky procedures, or be left with irreversible consequences, including infertility. By contrast, women with adequate resources access to safe abortions, though illegal, in good quality clinical care and are not convicted criminal or socially for their decision, which makes visible the existence of an embarrassing social double standard.
Therefore, the criminalization of abortion in Chile is a major public health problem, but also human rights and social justice, they are poor women who are severely affected by this punitive legislation, which is an explicit form of discrimination, inequality, violence and torture that the institutions of the state imposes on them, with the active support of organizations like the Catholic Church and others. This contravenes the spirit of various human rights treaties ratified by Chile, as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, among others, that require precautionary protect a range of women's human rights. In response, various UN committees have repeatedly asked the Chilean government to repair this situation, without getting satisfactory answers.
a maternity should not be imposed by cultural or religious terms or by punishing laws, in practice, are a major legislative failure. In fact Chile is one of the countries with higher rates of abortion in our Latin American and Caribbean region. Against this, call the society at large, and all the social movements that defend human rights in the country, the region and the world to join in solidarity with a public campaign to demand that the Chilean government for the immediate review punitive legislation on abortion, as well as to cease the persecution of women who have abortions, who are often betrayed in the same health services, which have become agents of the state criminal prosecution.
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