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July 26, 2017

Chile: Hundreds March to Demand Legalization of Abortion
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And in Chile, hundreds of people took to the streets Tuesday to demand
abortion be legalized, only days after a bill to increase abortion
access failed to pass by only one vote. The bill would have allowed
abortion in the case of rape, if the mother's life is at risk or if the
fetus has a deadly birth defect. More than 70 percent of Chileans
supported the legislation-and some support legalizing abortion in any
cases. This is one of the protesters Tuesday.

Protester: "An abortion where everybody has the right to an abortion and
not obligatory motherhood. We don't want three causes. We want want an
infinite number of causes, because women have the right to make a
decision on their body."



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