Blog 5: About abortion

The abortion issue is the debate about the beginning of life and the right of women to decide about their fertility. The abortion was carried out to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. This process has the theme of motherhood as possible and sets in motion a possible paternity, understood both as a generation not only biological, but as an exercise in raising and showing of relationships for life.

In Chile, from September 1989 to repeal the provision that for about fifty years had allowed therapeutic abortion, all abortions performed in this country occur in secret because it is penalized without exception. In the years before 1930, when abortion was the status of public health problem and authorized in case of serious risk to life or health of women, the debate on the issue was addressed from the perspective of health public, as I said Dr. Lorena Binfa.

The abortion in my opinion is a sensitive issue to address because it is directly related to human rights by the life of this new being, as well as sexual and reproductive rights from the point of view of women. As to whether I agree with these practices, I say that depends on the circumstances, as in Chile any abortion is punishable by law, but do not consider cases in which if it might be necessary (therapeutic abortion), as example of a case here in Chile, where a pregnant lady anencephaly, for which he was not any chance of surviving outside the womb, had to wait 9 months and give birth to a son who will never hug her or him tell mom, she said, that pregnancy was a torment, torture. So I say, would agree to such situations, however in unwanted pregnancies, it would completely disagree and that is a life like any other, equally important, and even more so if you can not defend. Women should be empowered about their sexuality, without trampling on the rights of another person (the fetus), and have done with other areas of their lives expressing the valuations of their sexuality, motherhood, quality of life and capacity and right to self-determination as people in a society, and using the methods of protection (contraception) and later regret not having an unwanted pregnancy, and even having to reach these limits as abortion, risking the consequences and implement risk their lives and "getting rid of another."