Emergency pill for Chilean girls (BBC) {morning-after, Plan B}

[eppur_se_muova]

Chile's president has signed a decree so that the morning-after contraceptive pill can be given to girls as young as 14 without their parents' consent.
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The Catholic Church and opposition parties are against the move - they say the morning-after pill is a method of abortion, which is illegal in Chile.

Counselling

President Michelle Bachelet's government announced last year that it would allow public health centres to give the morning-after pill to girls of 14 and older, even if they did not have the consent of their parents.

However, two weeks ago, the Constitutional Court ruled that the health minister did not have the power to do so and the distribution of the pill was halted.

The decree signed on Monday includes an amendment which requires teenagers to receive counselling when they are given the pill.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6312609.stm

[TlalocW]

1. Good

I know they won't every totally get out from the yoke of the Catholic Church, but anytime Latin American countries do something like this, they let the Vatican know that they're not in charge there, the government is, and that's a good thing.

TlalocW

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Step 1: Elect a woman to lead the country. nt

[HockeyMom]

3. If government listened to the Catholic Church

even condoms for married couples would be banned.