With some of the strictest abortion laws in Latin America, abortion 'doulas' are risking prison but say women need their help.
A woman holds the abortion medication that she and her network gather from foreign contacts who smuggle them in to Chile for her group to give to women who need them.While her clandestine network has continued to function through the pandemic, the supply line of pharmaceuticals smuggled in from countries where they are easier to procure is in danger.
“Women go to health professionals who don’t understand the law or how to treat them if they are seeking abortions," she said."The nature of having a clandestine abortion also causes its own problems.” Assisting an illegal abortion carries a maximum sentence of three years and one day, while a woman illegally terminating her pregnancy faces five years, so she remains on high alert with each case. But she said she is not stopping until she and her group feel women are being fairly treated.Health professionals and even private hospitals that receive some public funding have the right to refuse to perform abortions, which pro-choice campaigners say leaves many women vulnerable.
“The embryo and fetus are philosophical realities belonging to the biological identity of any human being," he said,"and are only in a very early and vulnerable stage of development." by the Center for Public Studies suggested general approval for legal abortion remained low at under 7 percent of women, with around 27 percent, mostly women over 55, favoring a total ban. But 71 percent of Chileans approved of abortion under the three conditions allowed in the 2017 law.Psychoanalyst Leslie Nicholls worked on crisis intervention with women in forced pregnancies until 2017 when the new laws were passed.
"Women who have money can travel to have this procedure, mainly to the U.S. Those who don’t end up on a pilgrimage through different health centers, finding little empathy in the process, abuse and discrimination," she said."It’s worse in rural area where there are fewer hospitals, and people are generally poorer.”
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