“The State guarantees the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights without discrimination, with a focus on gender, inclusion and cultural belonging, as well as access to information, education, health, and the services and benefits required for it, ensuring all women and persons with the capacity to gestate, the conditions for a pregnancy, a voluntary interruption of pregnancy, voluntary and protected childbirth and motherhood”, says the approved text.
In addition, “it guarantees its exercise free of violence and interference by third parties, whether individuals or institutions.”
Paragraph one of the same article was also approved, which states that “all people are holders of sexual rights and reproductive rights. These include, among others, the right to decide freely, autonomously and informed about one’s own bodyon the exercise of sexuality, reproduction, pleasure and contraception”.
This section was approved by 113 votes in favor, 35 against and five abstentions.
In this way, these norms are already in the draft of the new Constitution, which once endorsed by the Harmonizing Commission will go to the project that the Convention will deliver to the president Gabriel Boricwhich must call an exit plebiscite so that the citizens can decide whether or not to approve the new Magna Carta.
If approved, it will put an end to the current Constitution, written in 1980, during the civic-military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-90).
Currently and since 2017, Chile has a law that decriminalizes abortion for three reasons: danger to the life of the woman, lethal fetal inviability, and pregnancy due to rape.
Source: Ambito
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