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Chilean activists demand humane treatment for women who abort

August 28, 2009
Daniela Estrada, IPS News

Some 30 members of the Chilean Health Ministry's Consultative Council on Gender and Women's Health have asked the government to enforce a directive ordering humane and compassionate treatment for women who have had an abortion.

Three representatives of the Consultative Council delivered a letter to Health Minister Álvaro Erazo Wednesday, demanding that he enforce his own instructions, sent Apr. 24 to the heads of every public health service in the country.

"This is a protest against the disclosure of the identities of young women who had abortions and were admitted to public hospitals," Adriana Gómez, of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, told IPS. She handed over the letter along with Rosa Ferrada, of the Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Women, and Rosa Yáñez, of the Open Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

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