Is Chile about to end Pinochet’s total ban on abortion?
Simeon Tegel April 13, 2014 07:55
Is Chile about to end Pinochet’s total ban on abortion?
This country is 1 of just 6 that prohibit terminating pregnancy under any circumstance. That may be about to change.
LIMA, Peru — When doctors told Karen Espindola three months into her pregnancy that her son had a brain defect, her initial reaction was searing grief.
But even as she sobbed in the hospital waiting room — surrounded by other expecting moms anxiously looking forward to giving birth — she decided to press ahead with the pregnancy.
A 23-year-old call center worker, whose partner had abandoned her upon hearing she was pregnant, Espindola resolved to love her son regardless of whether he had Down’s syndrome or some other genetic condition. Two weeks later, after further tests, she received the calamitous news.
Oswaldo, her son, had been diagnosed with holoprosencephaly, a rare brain condition that would leave him severely physically disabled and with a life expectancy that would run to early childhood at most.
More:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/chile/140411/chilean-health-ban-abortion-bachelet
