Women's Health Journal

Nicaragua and Chile. Defending reproductive choice
Women's Health Journal - 2003 - Women's Health Journal, 1, 4-10

Palabras claves : aborto inducido; adolescencia; adolescentes; anticoncepción de emergencia; características de la población; crimen; crítica; demandantes de aborto; derechos humanos; derechos reproductivos; educación en planificación familiar; empoderamiento; enfermadades sexualmente transmisibles; enfermedades; enfermedades de transmisión sexual; estrupo; evaluación; factores de edad; factores demográficos; factores económicos; factores políticos; factores socioeconómicos; feminismo; gobierno; infecciones; infecciones del tracto reproductivo; juventud; legislación; legislación del aborto; mujer embrazada; mujeres; planificación familiar; población; problemas sociales; sistema político; sistemas políticos; status de la mujer; violación
País : America Del Norte; America del Sur; America Del Sur; América latina; Centroamérica; Chile; Costa Rica; Latina America; Nicaragua; País en desarrollo; Sudamérica

Resumen : This section includes an interview with Marta Marfa Blandon and Lorna Norori, Nicaraguan psychologists and members of Nicaragua's Red de Mujeres contra la Violencia (Network ofWomen Against Violence). Marta Marfa and Lorna participated directly in the resolution of Rosita's case, which is emblematic of the struggle for the defense of women's human rights, the right to reproductive choice and the right to corporal and psychological integrity. We also include information about the recent consolidation of the Mesa Feminista sobre Aborto (Feminist Working Group on Abortion) in Chile. In this country, women are absolutely prohibited from accessing legal abortions even when their lives or health is endangered. A bill currently before the Chilean Senate would toughen this already restrictive law in direct opposition to Chilean public opinion. Despite the stigmatization of abortion, a high percentage of both women and men in Chile support women's right to reproductive choice. (excerpt)

Web site : http://www.reddesalud.org/english/sitio/021.htm
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