Abortion
I think we are all fully aware of what abortion contemplates, but do we really know when it started to be forbidden in Chile? In this blog I'm going to talk about it, since I think it's important to have a more complete notion about this topic. The first instance of discussion of this issue begins after independence, in the 1874 Penal Code, which with a markedly moralistic tenor places the crime of abortion in Title VII "against the order of families and public morality". Almost 60 years later, the Sanitary Code of 1931 issued under the government of Carlos Ibañez, indicated in its Article 226 that: "Only for therapeutic purposes, a pregnancy may be interrupted or an intervention may be performed to make a woman sterile, which will require the documented opinion of three medical practitioners", which was later modified under the government of Frei Montalva, reducing the documented opinion to two medical practitioners. Years later, the absolute prohibition ...