The Minister of Women and Gender Equality, Antonia Orellana, announced that the bill seeking to decriminalize abortion in Chile will be presented in December of this year.
The initiative was announced by President Gabriel Boric during his speech for the last Public Account of the government on June 1.
Thus, during her participation in the TVN program Estado Nacional, Minister Orellana stated that the legal abortion project will be presented during the second semester, during which, among other things, they will seek to “improve the regulations for the application of the three causes, which is an issue that has already been settled in our country (…) but which, in its first years of implementation, did not have sufficient training for the teams.”
Along these lines, she argued that “what we seek with this regulation is that this legitimate decision of conscientious objection, firstly, is a decision that cannot be reached and invoked without there being an order in the healthcare network, because it has a duty which is the continuity of care. Secondly, to order it so that no girl or woman, because of where she lives, does not have access to the law.”
Regarding the time limit for abortion, the Secretary of State said that “we are going to work in that direction, also seeking agreements between those of us who are in favor, because there are obviously different positions.”
“In my position, I think that 14 weeks is a reasonable period, but I think it should be discussed in depth,” he added. “It is a limit that is mostly applied in countries that have this regulated,” he said.
Finally, Antonia Orellana was asked about Archbishop Fernando Chomalí’s criticism of the legal abortion bill, where she stated that “I have no interest in this discussion being a debate between our ministry and the Catholic Church. It is not desirable and it is something I am going to lend myself to,” she concluded.
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